Diesel-electric
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A diesel-electric locomotive.
"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."
- 2 a locomotive driven by the electric current generated by a diesel engine wordnet
- 1 Describing a power system in which a diesel engine powers an electrical generator. not-comparable
"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."
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More examples"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."
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