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axleweight

axleweight is the alternative form of axle weight.

Meaning of axle weight

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 axleweight

pluralaxleweights

Origin of axleweight

From axle + weight.

Questions about axleweight

What is axleweight the alternative form of?
Axleweight is the alternative form of axle weight.

Words near axleweight in the dictionary

  1. Axlers
  2. axles
  3. axless
  4. axletree
  5. axletrees
  6. axleweight
  7. axleweights
  8. Axley
  9. Axleys
  10. axlike
  11. axmaker

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