Diesel-electric
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Diesel-electric is an adjective meaning Describing a power system in which a diesel engine powers an electrical generator.
Meaning
Describing a power system in which a diesel engine powers an electrical generator.
More Meanings
- (rail transport) A diesel-electric locomotive.
Example Sentences
Brush supplied shunters to industrial clients, but the first significant main line order came from the Ceylon Government Railway in 1950 for 25 diesel-electrics.
In the United States, where the railways are 90 per cent. dieselised today, diesel-electric power is the unvarying rule for independent locomotive units, and the only motive power exceptions are the highly successful 600-h.p. diesel-hydraulic railcars of the Budd "RDC" type, of which between 300 and 400 are now at work.
Word Forms
- diesel-electrics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dieseled, discrete, digimatic, do-ocratic, succdem, di-di.
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