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hot refueling

hot refueling is the present participle and gerund of hot refuel.

Meaning of hot refuel

Verb

hot refuel (third-person singular simple present hot refuels, present participle (US) hot refueling or (UK) hot refuelling, simple past and past participle (US) hot refueled or (UK) hot refuelled)

  1. To refuel an aircraft while one of its engines is running.
    • The plane's APU was broken and the airport didn't have ground starting equipment, so we had to hot refuel the bird - if we'd shut both engines down, we wouldn't have been able to get them started again.

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Questions about hot refueling

What is hot refueling the present participle and gerund of?
Hot refueling is the present participle and gerund of hot refuel.

Words near hot refueling in the dictionary

  1. hot rails
  2. hot reactor
  3. hot reactors
  4. hot refuel
  5. hot refueled
  6. hot refueling
  7. hot refuelled
  8. hot refuelling
  9. hot refuels
  10. hot rock
  11. hot rocks

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