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summit tunnel

summit tunnel noun: a tunnel driven through a pass at fairly high altitude to minimize the length of tunnel required, at the cost of requiring steeper and more winding routes up to each end of the tunnel.

Noun

summit tunnel (plural summit tunnels)

  1. A tunnel driven through a pass at fairly high altitude to minimize the length of tunnel required, at the cost of requiring steeper and more winding routes up to each end of the tunnel.

Forms of summit tunnel

pluralsummit tunnels

Questions about summit tunnel

What does summit tunnel mean?
Summit tunnel means a tunnel driven through a pass at fairly high altitude to minimize the length of tunnel required, at the cost of requiring steeper and more winding routes up to each end of the tunnel.
What part of speech is summit tunnel?
Summit tunnel is a noun.
What is the plural of summit tunnel?
The plural of summit tunnel is summit tunnels.

Words near summit tunnel in the dictionary

  1. summit
  2. Summit County
  3. summit disease
  4. summit diseases
  5. summit fever
  6. summit tunnel
  7. summit tunnels
  8. summit-hop
  9. summit-hopped
  10. summit-hopper
  11. summit-hoppers

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