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tankful

tankful noun: the amount (usually of a fluid) that will fill a tank.

Noun

tankful (plural tankfuls or tanksful)

  1. The amount (usually of a fluid) that will fill a tank.
    • Each tankful of leaded gasoline causes an increasingly thick coating of lead to build up on the catalyst.1985 December, Popular Mechanics, page 52
    • Regane^® Premiumᵀᴹ is a gas treatment so superior, it′ll work through eleven tankfuls-not just one.1988 July, advertisement, Field & Stream, page 57

Examples of tankful in a sentence

  • One driver has kept track of several tankfuls of gasoline by recording the miles driven and gallons used for each tankful.2008, Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel, Visual C♯ 2008: How to Program, page 215:
  • In 2015, two men drove a car through all 48 contiguous U.S. states on less than $300 of diesel fuel, or just eight tankfuls.2016 July 21, Jacopo Prisco, “How ‘hypermiling’ can save you a lot of fuel (and the planet)”, in CNN:

Forms of tankful

pluraltankfuls
pluraltanksful

Origin of tankful

From tank + -ful.

Questions about tankful

What does tankful mean?
Tankful means the amount (usually of a fluid) that will fill a tank.
How do you use tankful in a sentence?
One driver has kept track of several tankfuls of gasoline by recording the miles driven and gallons used for each tankful.
What part of speech is tankful?
Tankful is a noun.
What is the plural of tankful?
The plural of tankful is tankfuls.

Words near tankful in the dictionary

  1. tankerts
  2. tankette
  3. tankettes
  4. tankfarm
  5. tankfarms
  6. tankful
  7. tankfuls
  8. tankhood
  9. tankia
  10. Tankian
  11. tankias

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