Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

steam generator

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: steam -gen-er-a-tor
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.

Example Sentences

"[...] during those ghastly winters of the late 1940's when the smallish steam generators of early diesel passenger units proved inadequate …[...]"

Inflected Forms

steam generators (plural)

Questions

What does steam generator mean?: A type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.

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