Meanings
nounweight-saving (uncountable)
alternative weight saving · alternative weightsaving
- uncountableAn intentional reduction in the weight of an object.
Because of attention to weight-saving No 5751 weighed much the same as the shorter Maunsell coaches.
1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 396
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