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combustion chamber

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An enclosed space, within a heat engine, in which the fuel is mixed and reacted with air or other oxidizing agent in a controlled manner.

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Translations

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: حجرة احتراق — space in a heat engine
  • Azerbaijani: yanma kamerası — space in a heat engine
  • Catalan: cambra de combustió — space in a heat engine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 燃燒室 /燃烧室 (ránshāoshì) — space in a heat engine
  • Czech: spalovací komora — space in a heat engine
  • Czech: spalovací prostor — space in a heat engine
  • Dutch: verbrandingskamer — space in a heat engine
  • Esperanto: brulkamero — space in a heat engine
  • Finnish: palotila — space in a heat engine
  • Finnish: polttokammio — space in a heat engine
  • French: chambre de combustion — space in a heat engine
  • Galician: cámara de combustión — space in a heat engine
  • German: Brennkammer — space in a heat engine
  • Hebrew: תָּא בְּעֵרָה (ta be'era) — space in a heat engine
  • Hebrew: תָּא שְׂרֵפָה (ta srefa) — space in a heat engine
  • Hungarian: égéstér — space in a heat engine
  • Indonesian: ruang bakar — space in a heat engine
  • Italian: camera di combustione — space in a heat engine
  • Japanese: 燃焼室 (nenshōshitsu) — space in a heat engine
  • Korean: 연소실 (yeonsosil) — space in a heat engine
  • Norwegian Bokmål: forbrenningskammer — space in a heat engine
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: forbrenningskammer — space in a heat engine
  • Persian: محفظه احتراق — space in a heat engine
  • Polish: komora spalania — space in a heat engine
  • Portuguese: câmara de combustão — space in a heat engine
  • Romanian: cameră de combustie — space in a heat engine
  • Romanian: cameră de ardere — space in a heat engine
  • Russian: ка́мера сгора́ния (kámera sgoránija) — space in a heat engine
  • Serbo-Croatian: komora izgaranja — space in a heat engine
  • Slovak: spaľovací priestor — space in a heat engine
  • Slovene: zgorevalna komora — space in a heat engine
  • Spanish: cámara de combustión — space in a heat engine
  • Swedish: brännkammare — space in a heat engine
  • Turkish: yanma odası — space in a heat engine
  • Ukrainian: камера згоряння (kamera zhorjannja) — space in a heat engine
  • Vietnamese: buồng đốt — space in a heat engine