Word.ws English Dictionary

hourly rating

hourly rating noun: a measure of the maximum output, usually expressed in horsepower, that can be obtained from the motors of an electric locomotive for a period of one hour without the motors overheating.

Noun

hourly rating (plural hourly ratings)

  1. A measure of the maximum output, usually expressed in horsepower, that can be obtained from the motors of an electric locomotive for a period of one hour without the motors overheating.
    • The year 1926 saw the putting in service of the first of the magnificent 1-Co-Co-1 locomotives of Type Ae 6/8, which at the time of their construction, with their hourly rating of 4,500 h.p., were the most powerful single electric locomotive units in the world.1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743

Forms of hourly rating

pluralhourly ratings

Questions about hourly rating

What does hourly rating mean?
Hourly rating means a measure of the maximum output, usually expressed in horsepower, that can be obtained from the motors of an electric locomotive for a period of one hour without the motors overheating.
What part of speech is hourly rating?
Hourly rating is a noun.
What is the plural of hourly rating?
The plural of hourly rating is hourly ratings.

Words near hourly rating in the dictionary

  1. hourless
  2. hourlessness
  3. hourlies
  4. hourlong
  5. hourly
  6. hourly rating
  7. hourly ratings
  8. hourly wage
  9. hourly wages
  10. Hourmazd
  11. hourplate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hourly rating (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hourly rating.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hourly_rating. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.