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axle weight

axle weight noun: the total weight placed upon an axle and its attached wheels, which is transmitted to a road or rail surface.

Noun

axle weight (plural axle weights)

  1. The total weight placed upon an axle and its attached wheels, which is transmitted to a road or rail surface.
    • It may be objected that this system fails to take into account of possibly the most important of all practical considerations, maximum axle weight.1942 May-June, Ashley Brown, “Classifying Locomotives by Symbols”, in Railway Magazine, page 135

Forms of axle weight

pluralaxle weights

Questions about axle weight

What does axle weight mean?
Axle weight means the total weight placed upon an axle and its attached wheels, which is transmitted to a road or rail surface.
What part of speech is axle weight?
Axle weight is a noun.
What is the plural of axle weight?
The plural of axle weight is axle weights.

Words near axle weight in the dictionary

  1. axle loads
  2. axle stand
  3. axle stands
  4. axle teeth
  5. axle tooth
  6. axle weight
  7. axle weights
  8. axle-box
  9. axle-boxes
  10. axle-driven
  11. axle-hung

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