tractive effort (English, noun)
expansion: tractive effort (plural tractive efforts)
Senses:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: the tractive force that can be generated by a prime mover to pull a load; cardinal examples are a locomotive pulling a train, a semi-tractor pulling a trailer or a tractor pulling a plow.
Forms:
form: tractive efforts
tags: plural