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brakeage

brakeage noun: the braking of a vehicle.

Noun

brakeage (uncountable)

  1. The braking of a vehicle.
    • That for trains of more than 16 carriages the energy of the brakes at the beginning of the brakeage decreased rapidly beyond the sixteenth carriage, which led to the conclusion […] that the electromagnet employed did not yet present a sufficient resistance, […]1883, The Railway Engineer, volume 4, page 253
    • […] will begin to move slowly backward, reversing the motion of the motor, the compression of which affords some brakeage.1985, Robert Thompson Sloss, The Book of the Automobile, page 210

Origin of brakeage

From brake + -age.

Questions about brakeage

What does brakeage mean?
Brakeage means the braking of a vehicle.
What part of speech is brakeage?
Brakeage is a noun.

Words near brakeage in the dictionary

  1. brake wheels
  2. brake-check
  3. brake-checked
  4. brake-checking
  5. brake-checks
  6. brakeage
  7. Brakebill
  8. Brakebills
  9. braked
  10. brakedrum
  11. brakedrums

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