conductor rail
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of third rail.
Example Sentences
- "As on Nos. 20001-3, the motor and generator armature shafts of the new locomotive each carry a heavy flywheel to provide kinetic energy and help maintain the speed of the motor-generator set during interruptions of supply, as at breaks in the continuity of the conductor rail."
- "On the morning of Thursday, November 3, flood water rose over the conductor rails in platforms 1 to 3 of Lewes station and the electric service to London had to be shut down."
- ""Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made."