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Etymology

From Middle English engin < Old French engin (“‘skill", "cleverness", "war machine’”) < Latin ingenium (“‘innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genious, an invention, in LL. a war-engine, battering-ram’”) < ingenitum, past participle of ingignere (“‘to instil by birth, implant, produce in’”); see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular engine

Plural engines

engine (plural engines)

  1. A mechanical device used to produce rotation to move vehicle or otherwise provide the force needed to generate kinetic energy.
  2. A powered locomotive used for pulling cars on railways.
  3. A person or group of people which influence a larger group.
  4. (informal) the brain or heart.
  5. (computing) A software system, not a complete program, responsible for a technical task (as in layout engine, physics engine).

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