dynamometer car
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A piece of railway rolling stock used to measure various aspects of a locomotive's performance.
Example Sentences
- "Wide open, a 4000 consumed up to 22 tons of coal and 100,000 pounds of water an hour and produced in one authenticated dynamometer-car test 6290 drawbar horsepower at 41.4 miles per hour."
- "More trials of diesel locomotives with fitted mineral trains have been observed. On October 31 a Brush Type 2, No. D5834, was seen on the Doncaster-Scunthorpe line with dynamometer car and 32 loaded wagons."