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wheel arrangements

wheel arrangements is the plural of wheel arrangement.

Meaning of wheel arrangement

Noun

wheel arrangement (plural wheel arrangements)

  1. A system of classifying the way the driving wheels and non-driving wheels are distributed under a locomotive.
    • Among tank engines, the 0-6-2 wheel arrangement was by far the most numerous, there being nearly 450 of this arrangement, which offers the advantage of good power and adhesive weight, coupled with adequate tank and bunker capacity, within a limited compass.1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161

Questions about wheel arrangements

What is wheel arrangements the plural of?
Wheel arrangements is the plural of wheel arrangement.

Words near wheel arrangements in the dictionary

  1. wheel animals
  2. wheel arch
  3. wheel arches
  4. wheel around
  5. wheel arrangement
  6. wheel arrangements
  7. wheel artist
  8. wheel artists
  9. wheel away
  10. wheel brace
  11. wheel braces

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