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fuel tanks

fuel tanks is the plural of fuel tank.

Meaning of fuel tank

Noun

fuel tank (plural fuel tanks)

  1. A container of fuel, especially one for motor fuel inside a vehicle.
    • The main fuel tank is slung from the underframe midway between the two bogies, and its capacity of 420 gal. supplies both the main engine and the train heating boiler.1950 November, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 781
  2. A container for storage of fuel, e.g. in a depot.
    • Pending the installation of four 7,000-gal. diesel fuel tanks, temporary refuelling facilities have been provided by the adaptation of a 3,000-gal. oil tank wagon.1956 October, “Recent changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662

Questions about fuel tanks

What is fuel tanks the plural of?
Fuel tanks is the plural of fuel tank.

Words near fuel tanks in the dictionary

  1. fuel station
  2. fuel stations
  3. fuel supplier
  4. fuel suppliers
  5. fuel tank
  6. fuel tanks
  7. fuel tourism
  8. fuel up
  9. fuel-poor
  10. fuelbreak
  11. fuelbreaks

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