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wastegates

wastegates is the plural of wastegate.

Meaning of wastegate

Noun

wastegate (plural wastegates)

  1. A valve that allows exhaust gases to bypass an engine's turbocharger, in order to keep from overspeeding the turbocharger rotor or driving the boost pressure high enough to risk engine knocking or detonation.

Questions about wastegates

What is wastegates the plural of?
Wastegates is the plural of wastegate.

Words near wastegates in the dictionary

  1. wastefulnesses
  2. wastegal
  3. wastegals
  4. wastegash
  5. wastegate
  6. wastegates
  7. wastegood
  8. wastegoods
  9. wasteground
  10. wastegrounds
  11. wasteheap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wastegates (page history and authors); wastegate (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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