mixed gauge
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A description of a railway track with (usually) three rails, which enables trains of two different track gauges to run over it.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "An ingenious method was used in the early days of mixed gauges on the Great Western Railway, by which narrow gauge and broad gauge trains could be sent on diverging paths without the use of ordinary switches controlled from a signalbox."
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Synonyms
dual gauge