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dynamometer cars

dynamometer cars is the plural of dynamometer car.

Meaning of dynamometer car

Noun

dynamometer car (plural dynamometer cars)

  1. A piece of railway rolling stock used to measure various aspects of a locomotive's performance.
    • Wide open, a 4000 consumed up to 22 tons of coal and 100,000 pounds of water an hour and produced in one authenticated dynamometer-car test 6290 drawbar horsepower at 41.4 miles per hour.1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., referring to the Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4-8-8-4

Questions about dynamometer cars

What is dynamometer cars the plural of?
Dynamometer cars is the plural of dynamometer car.

Words near dynamometer cars in the dictionary

  1. dynamogeny
  2. dynamograph
  3. dynamographs
  4. dynamometer
  5. dynamometer car
  6. dynamometer cars
  7. dynamometers
  8. dynamometric
  9. dynamometrical
  10. dynamometrically
  11. dynamometry

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