English Explanatory Dictionary

axle load

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

the total weight, including load carried, transferred by one axle and its wheels to a road or railway surface. This is especially important in relation to what weight road and railway structures can carry, bridges in particular.

Word forms

axle load axle loads axleload

Related words

axle loading axle weight

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