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car mile

car mile noun: a mile travelled by a single railway car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

Noun

car mile (plural car miles)

  1. A mile travelled by a single railway car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

Forms of car mile

pluralcar miles

Questions about car mile

What does car mile mean?
Car mile means a mile travelled by a single railway car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.
What part of speech is car mile?
Car mile is a noun.
What is the plural of car mile?
The plural of car mile is car miles.

Words near car mile in the dictionary

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  6. car mile
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