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continuous-braked

continuous-braked adjective: having a number of vehicles fitted with air or vacuum brakes, all connected by train pipes, the braking being under the control of the train driver.

Adjective

continuous-braked (not comparable)

  1. Having a number of vehicles fitted with air or vacuum brakes, all connected by train pipes, the braking being under the control of the train driver.
    • Some goods trains have a third class carriage at the back, and as the whole train is continuous-braked, travelling is not uncomfortable.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266

Questions about continuous-braked

What does continuous-braked mean?
Continuous-braked means having a number of vehicles fitted with air or vacuum brakes, all connected by train pipes, the braking being under the control of the train driver.
What part of speech is continuous-braked?
Continuous-braked is an adjective.

Words near continuous-braked in the dictionary

  1. continuous variables
  2. continuous wave
  3. continuous wavelet transform
  4. continuous wavelet transforms
  5. continuous waves
  6. continuous-braked
  7. continuousity
  8. continuously
  9. continuously habitable zone
  10. continuously habitable zones
  11. continuously variable transmission

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