Free-running
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Free-running is an adjective meaning (of a mechanism) Moving freely and smoothly.
Meaning
(of a mechanism) Moving freely and smoothly.
Example Sentences
It is the Bulleid Pacifics of the Southern Region, which all observers of locomotive performance know to be among the freest running engines in the country.
As to any suggestion that Stroudley's engines were not free-running at high speed, this was of little moment with 60 m.p.h. laid down as the limit at that time.
Word Forms
- freer-running
- freest-running
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include free-flowing, smooth, freewheeling, free-wheeling, free-roaming, free-range.
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