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Word: engine (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A person or group of people which influence a larger group.
  • A powered locomotive used for pulling cars on railways.
  • computing A software system, not a complete program, responsible for a technical task (as in ''layout engine'', ''physics engine'').
  • engineering A device to convert energy into useful mechanical motion.
  • informal the brain or heart.
  • obsolete Cunning, trickery.
  • obsolete The result of cunning; a plot, a scheme.

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