piston
/ˈpɪs·tən/ n [C]Definition
› an engine part, usually a short, solid tube or round, flat object, which moves up and down or forward and backward inside a cylinder, and causes other parts of an engine or machine to move
(Definition of piston n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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