Rotary engine (disambiguation)
- Rotary engine (disambiguation)
A rotary engine was a rotating piston engine used in some early aircraft.
Confusingly, the Wankel engine - a pistonless internal combustion engine used in NSU and some Mazda cars has also been referred to as a "rotary engine"
Rotary engine may also refer to:
* Pistonless rotary engine - other proposed pistonless internal combustion engines
* Turbine - a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow
* Windmill - a rotary engine that extracts energy from wind
* Waterwheel - a rotary engine that extracts energy from water
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