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lubricating oil

lubricating oil noun: an oil for lubrication of engines and other components.

Noun

lubricating oil (plural lubricating oils)

  1. An oil for lubrication of engines and other components.
    • Safety devices ensure that the engines are automatically shut down in the event of overspeed, low pressure in the lubricating oil system, low cooling-water pressure, or high cooling-water temperature.1955 October, “Main-Line Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 718
    • Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 329

lubricating oil meaning in Tamil and Kannada

lubricating oil in Tamil

உயவு எண்ணெய், மசகு எண்ணெய், உராய்வுநீக்குமெண்ணெய்

lubricating oil in Kannada

ಕೀಲೆಣ್ಣೆ

Forms of lubricating oil

plurallubricating oils

Questions about lubricating oil

What does lubricating oil mean?
Lubricating oil means an oil for lubrication of engines and other components.
What is lubricating oil in Tamil?
Lubricating oil in Tamil is உயவு எண்ணெய், மசகு எண்ணெய், உராய்வுநீக்குமெண்ணெய். See Lubricating oil meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lubricating oil?
Lubricating oil is a noun.
What is the plural of lubricating oil?
The plural of lubricating oil is lubricating oils.

Words near lubricating oil in the dictionary

  1. lubricants
  2. lubricate
  3. lubricated
  4. lubricates
  5. lubricating
  6. lubricating oil
  7. lubricating oils
  8. lubrication
  9. lubrication payment
  10. lubrication payments
  11. lubricational

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lubricating oil (page history and authors); lubricating oil (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lubricating oil (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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