axle weight

noun

The total weight placed upon an axle and its attached wheels, which is transmitted to a road or rail surface.

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Meanings

nounaxle weight (plural axle weights)

plural axle weights

  1. The total weight placed upon an axle and its attached wheels, which is transmitted to a road or rail surface.

    It may be objected that this system fails to take into account of possibly the most important of all practical considerations, maximum axle weight.

    1942 May-June, Ashley Brown, “Classifying Locomotives by Symbols”, in Railway Magazine, page 135
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