diesel-hydraulic locomotive

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

   Synonymsdiesel-hydraulic

   Broaderdiesel locomotive

Questions about diesel-hydraulic locomotive

What does diesel-hydraulic locomotive mean?

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

What is another word for diesel-hydraulic locomotive?

Close synonyms include diesel-hydraulic. 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.

Is diesel-hydraulic locomotive a common word?

diesel-hydraulic locomotive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.