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steam generators

steam generators is the plural of steam generator.

Meaning of steam generator

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

Questions about steam generators

What is steam generators the plural of?
Steam generators is the plural of steam generator.

Words near steam generators in the dictionary

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

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