diesel-hydraulic

1. 1.

   a locomotive driven by a hydraulic transmission system powered by a diesel engine

   Synonymsdiesel-hydraulic locomotive

   Broaderdiesel locomotive

Questions about diesel-hydraulic

What does diesel-hydraulic mean?

diesel-hydraulic means "a locomotive driven by a hydraulic transmission system powered by a diesel engine".

How many syllables are in diesel-hydraulic?

diesel-hydraulic has 5 syllables and divides as die-sel--hy-drau-lic 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-hydraulic?

Close synonyms include diesel-hydraulic 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.