English Noun entry ignition engine (plural entry ignition engines) (automotive) A type of extended-Brayton-cycle-based two-stroke engine which uses four cylinders for a combustion cycle of four strokes, but having a power stroke rate of that on regular two-stroke cycles. Synonyms Cheeseman-cycle engineCheeseman-cycle two-stroke engineCheeseman engineCheeseman two-stroke engineEI engine Hypernyms Brayton-cycle engineCheeseman-cycle enginecombustion engineengineinternal combustion enginemotortwo-stroke engine Coordinate terms Brayton cycleCheeseman cycleClerk cycleClerk-cycle enginecompression-ignition engineDiesel cycleDiesel-cycle enginediesel engineOtto cycleOtto-cycle enginespark-ignition engine Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.