refrigerating engine

refrigerating engine
noun or refrigerating machine
: an apparatus working in a reversed heat-engine cycle for utilizing mechanical energy (as by compressing and expanding ammonia gas) to extract heat from a substance (as circulating brine) — compare brayton cycle

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