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straight engine

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Also known as inline engine

engine configuration

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Encyclopedic overview

A straight engine, or inline engine, is a configuration of multi-cylinder piston engine where all of the cylinders are arranged in a single row, rather than radially or in two or more cylinder banks.

Design

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “straight engine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.