tankful

plural tankfuls · plural tanksful

1. The amount (usually of a fluid) that will fill a tank.

   1988 July, advertisement, Field & Stream, page 57, Regane^® Premiumᵀᴹ is a gas treatment so superior, it′ll work through eleven tankfuls-not just one.

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   Each tankful of leaded gasoline causes an increasingly thick coating of lead to build up on the catalyst.

   1985 December, Popular Mechanics, page 52

   One driver has kept track of several tankfuls of gasoline by recording the miles driven and gallons used for each tankful.

   2008, Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel, Visual C♯ 2008: How to Program, page 215

   In 2015, two men drove a car through all 48 contiguous U.S. states on less than $300 of diesel fuel, or just eight tankfuls.

   2016 July 21, Jacopo Prisco, “How ‘hypermiling’ can save you a lot of fuel (and the planet)”, in CNN