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jet dryer

jet dryer noun: a piece of racetrack maintenance equipment, a truck or trailer equipped with a gas turbine jet engine (which does not provide motive or electrical power), that provides copious amounts of hot air, which is used to blow dry the track surface. Also the ellipsis of jet hand dryer.

jet dryer: a piece of racetrack maintenance equipment, a truck or trailer equipped with a gas turbine jet...
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Noun

jet dryer (plural jet dryers)

  1. A piece of racetrack maintenance equipment, a truck or trailer equipped with a gas turbine jet engine (which does not provide motive or electrical power), that provides copious amounts of hot air, which is used to blow dry the track surface.

Also used as

jet dryer is also the ellipsis of jet hand dryer.

Forms of jet dryer

pluraljet dryers

Origin of jet dryer

From jet + dryer. From being a device that projects a jet of air used to dry a surface.

Questions about jet dryer

What does jet dryer mean?
Jet dryer means a piece of racetrack maintenance equipment, a truck or trailer equipped with a gas turbine jet engine (which does not provide motive or electrical power), that provides copious amounts of hot air, which is used to blow dry the track surface.
What part of speech is jet dryer?
Jet dryer is a noun.
What is the plural of jet dryer?
The plural of jet dryer is jet dryers.

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  4. jet cocoons
  5. jet d'eau
  6. jet dryer
  7. jet dryers
  8. jet engine
  9. jet engines
  10. jet fighter
  11. jet fighters

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