spark plug

Signification (Anglais)

  1. The part of some internal combustion engines which forms a high-voltage electric spark which ignites the fuel-air mixture to begin the power stroke. (Petrol engines have spark plugs. Diesel engines do not have them because the heat from their high compression ratios supplies the ignition.)
  2. (figuratively) Someone who is a driving force in new endeavours.
  3. A rod (for cylindrical secondaries) or sphere (for spherical secondaries) of fissile material at the center of the secondary of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which undergoes nuclear fission when compressed to supercriticality by the imploding secondary, helping to raise the secondary to the pressures and temperatures necessary to ignite nuclear fusion in the secondary's fusion fuel.

Concepts

bougie d’allumage

bougie électrique

bougie d'allumage

Traductions

bougie

μπουζί

ontstekingsbuis

bugia

αναφλεκτήρας

candela d’accensione

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