electric locomotive

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   a locomotive that is powered by an electric motor

   Broaderlocomotive

   Partselectric motor

Questions about electric locomotive

What does electric locomotive mean?

electric locomotive means "a locomotive that is powered by an electric motor".

Is electric locomotive a common word?

electric 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.