fuel injector

English

Noun

fuel injector (plural fuel injectors)

  1. A component which injects fuel into a cylinder of an internal-combustion engine.
    • 1958 April, “British Railways First Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
      Individual cylinder heads are fitted each with two inlet and two exhaust valves, a fuel injector and a pre-combustion chamber.

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