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engines

noun

plural of engine

as in machines

a device that changes energy into mechanical motion a car with a 200-horsepower engine

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Recent Examples of engines These rocket engines dramatically improve acceleration, top speed, braking & cornering. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026 In particular, fire officials drew heat for failing to pre-deploy engines to Pacific Palisades, despite forecasters warning of extreme fire weather conditions. — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 Once the necessary conversion engines and AI models have been downloaded, Morphjet can also operate with Wi-Fi turned off. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 That is why acceleration has to run the length of the stack, from storage through the data engines to the model itself, which is where Dell’s engineering work with NVIDIA picks up the story. — Osman Koc, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Detroit automakers, and some foreign ones, have already been reintroducing V-8 engines. — Robert Ferris, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026 Valve hardware engineer Yazan Aldehayyat says the company was focused on creating a computer powerful enough to process complex game engines and load vivid open worlds, but compact enough to fit on your desk or TV stand. — Kevin Cortez, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Up to three were scheduled to enter service in 2026 with dual-fuel ammonia engines. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026 Cigarette officially launched the Top Gun line in ’86, unveiling a 38-footer with its signature razor-sharp hull and a pair of gutsy V-8s that could push the yacht to over 50 knots (roughly 58 mph), depending on the specific engines. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026

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In an age of intelligent machines, these may be our most essential skills.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
While Nvidia’s new laptops might look like regular Windows machines, the chips inside are Arm-based, instead of the traditional x64 architecture used by AMD and Intel.

— Tom Warren, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026

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The simulation accounted for the real motors’ limited strength and speed, as well as the play in their gears, so the robot learned moves its body could actually pull off in real life.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026
Motors mimic joints, aid gait The PhoneBot is also equipped with 13 low-cost DYNAMIXEL servo motors, with each leg carrying six of them, maintaining the traditional bipedal leg architecture.

— muskanbhatia, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026

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