Brakeage
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The braking of a vehicle. uncountable
"That for trains of more than 16 carriages the energy of the brakes at the beginning of the brakeage decreased rapidly beyond the sixteenth carriage, which led to the conclusion […] that the electromagnet employed did not yet present a sufficient resistance, […]"
Example
More examples"That for trains of more than 16 carriages the energy of the brakes at the beginning of the brakeage decreased rapidly beyond the sixteenth carriage, which led to the conclusion […] that the electromagnet employed did not yet present a sufficient resistance, […]"
Etymology
From brake + -age.
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