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steam generator

steam generator noun: a type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.

Noun

steam generator (plural steam generators)

  1. A type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.
    • [...] during those ghastly winters of the late 1940's when the smallish steam generators of early diesel passenger units proved inadequate …[...]1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 8

steam generator meaning in Tamil

steam generator in Tamil

கொதிநீராவிப்பிறப்பாக்கி

Forms of steam generator

pluralsteam generators

Questions about steam generator

What does steam generator mean?
Steam generator means a type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.
What is steam generator in Tamil?
Steam generator in Tamil is கொதிநீராவிப்பிறப்பாக்கி. See Steam generator meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is steam generator?
Steam generator is a noun.
What is the plural of steam generator?
The plural of steam generator is steam generators.

Words near steam generator in the dictionary

  1. steam drum
  2. steam drums
  3. steam engine
  4. steam engines
  5. steam fog
  6. steam generator
  7. steam generators
  8. steam gun
  9. steam guns
  10. steam hammer
  11. steam hammers

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