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- uncountableThe braking of a vehicle.
[…] will begin to move slowly backward, reversing the motion of the motor, the compression of which affords some brakeage.
1985, Robert Thompson Sloss, The Book of the Automobile, page 2101 more example
That for trains of more than 16 carriages the energy of the brakes at the beginning of the brakeage decreased rapidly beyond the sixteenth carriage, which led to the conclusion […] that the electromagnet employed did not yet present a sufficient resistance, […]
1883, The Railway Engineer, volume 4, page 253
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brakeage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brakeage
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