Meanings
verbautoignite (third-person singular simple present autoignites, present participle autoigniting, simple past and past participle autoignited)
present singular third person autoignites · participle present autoigniting · participle past autoignited · past autoignited
- intransitiveTo ignite spontaneously.
Ideally, for GCI a premixed charge of gasoline and air is inducted into an engine with a sufficiently high compression ratio to allow the entire cylinder contents to autoignite in rapid succession.
2015, David Crolla, Encyclopedia of Automotive Engineering
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