lubricating oil
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An oil for lubrication of engines and other components.
Example Sentences
- "Safety devices ensure that the engines are automatically shut down in the event of overspeed, low pressure in the lubricating oil system, low cooling-water pressure, or high cooling-water temperature."
- "Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...]."