🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

슈퍼차저

Pronunciation / Transliteration: syupeochajeo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Supercharger/ˈsuːpərˌtʃɑːrdʒər/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그 스포츠카에는 강력한 슈퍼차저가 장착되어 있습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An air compressor that increases the pressure or density of air supplied to an internal combustion engine, giving it more oxygen and allowing it to burn more fuel to do more work.

    "The sports car's engine features a mechanical supercharger for instant acceleration."
  2. 2

    A high-capacity charging station used for rapidly recharging the batteries of electric vehicles.

    "We stopped at the highway rest stop to use the Tesla supercharger."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix super- (meaning 'above' or 'over', from Latin) combined with charger, originating from the verb charge (from Old French chargier, ultimately from Late Latin carricare). Coined in the early 20th century during the development of internal combustion engines to describe an air compressor that increases the pressure of air supplied to an engine.

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🇫🇷French → English

compresseur volumétrique

Transliteration: kɔ̃.pʁɛ.sœʁ vɔ.ly.me.tʁik

"Le moteur est équipé d'un compresseur volumétrique pour plus de puissance."

🇩🇪German → English

Kompressor

Transliteration: kɔmprɛˈsoːɐ̯

"Das Fahrzeug ist mit einem mechanischen Kompressor ausgestattet."

🇮🇹Italian → English

compressore volumetrico

Transliteration: kompresˈsore voluˈmetriko

"Il motore adotta un compressore volumetrico per migliorare le prestazioni."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

compresor volumétrico

Transliteration: kompɾeˈsoɾ βoluˈmetɾiko

"El motor cuenta con un compresor volumétrico para aumentar la potencia."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

compressor volumétrico

Transliteration: kõ.pɾeˈsoɾ vo.luˈmɛ.tɾi.ku

"O carro utiliza um compressor volumétrico para acelerar mais rápido."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

सुपरचार्जर

Transliteration: suparchārjar

"इस कार के इंजन में अधिक शक्ति के लिए सुपरचार्जर लगा है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

机械增压器

Transliteration: jìxiē zēngyāqì

"这款跑车配备了高性能的机械增压器。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

슈퍼차저

Transliteration: syupeochajeo

"그 스포츠카에는 강력한 슈퍼차저가 장착되어 있습니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

スーパーチャージャー

Transliteration: sūpāchājā

"そのエンジンの出力向上にはスーパーチャージャーが不可欠だ。"

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