diesel-electric

English

Adjective

diesel-electric (not comparable)

  1. Describing a power system in which a diesel engine powers an electrical generator.
    • 1958 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 268:
      In the United States, where the railways are 90 per cent. dieselised today, diesel-electric power is the unvarying rule for independent locomotive units, and the only motive power exceptions are the highly successful 600-h.p. diesel-hydraulic railcars of the Budd "RDC" type, of which between 300 and 400 are now at work.

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Noun

diesel-electric (plural diesel-electrics)

  2. (rail transport) A diesel-electric locomotive.
    Hypernyms: diesel locomotive < locomotive
    Coordinate term: diesel-hydraulic
    • 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
      Brush supplied shunters to industrial clients, but the first significant main line order came from the Ceylon Government Railway in 1950 for 25 diesel-electrics.

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