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valve-in-head engine definition

valve·-in-head· engine (valv′in hed′)

a type of internal-combustion engine, as in many automobiles, having the intake and exhaust valves in the cylinder head instead of the block

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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