diesel-electric

1. 1.

   a locomotive driven by the electric current generated by a diesel engine

   Synonymsdiesel-electric locomotive

   Broaderdiesel locomotive

Questions about diesel-electric

What does diesel-electric mean?

diesel-electric means "a locomotive driven by the electric current generated by a diesel engine".

How many syllables are in diesel-electric?

diesel-electric has 5 syllables and divides as die-se-l-e-lec-tric under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for diesel-electric?

Close synonyms include diesel-electric locomotive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.