Both Uses
combustion
in
Atlas Shrugged
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- My dear sister does not happen to be a human being, but just an internal combustion engine, so one must not wonder at her success.†
Chpt 1.8 *combustion = the act of burning
- It's the greatest revolution in power motors since the internal-combustion enginegreater than that!†
Chpt 1.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(combustion) the act of burning
or metaphorically:
a state of violent disturbance and excitement - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)