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tickovers

tickovers is the plural of tickover.

Meaning of tickover

Noun

tickover (usually uncountable, plural tickovers)

  1. (usually) The idle rate of an engine, particularly on a motorbike.
  2. (usually) The minimal turn-over rate of a chemical without additional stimulation.

Questions about tickovers

What is tickovers the plural of?
Tickovers is the plural of tickover.

Words near tickovers in the dictionary

  1. Tickner
  2. Tickners
  3. Ticknor
  4. Ticknors
  5. tickover
  6. tickovers
  7. tickproof
  8. ticks
  9. ticks a lock
  10. ticks a lot of boxes
  11. ticks all the boxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tickovers (page history and authors); tickover (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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