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drive trains

n. (drive train English)

Usage examples of "drive trains".

For all its size and power, it moved with unearthly quiet, and the only sounds were the whine of the wind, the soft purr of fusion-powered drive trains, the squeak of bogies, and the muted clatter of track links.

All middle-class girls taught how to drive trains at prep school, said Sandra.

How to drive trains, run power stations, run government, everything.

He entered the first hangar and was deafened by the roar of twenty battle tanks conducting final checks on their transmission and drive trains.

Take your choice according to the season, and expect your engines and drive trains to wear out in a fraction of the time that seemed reasonable in an air-conditioned office in Capetown.

We'll be stringing a few billion tons of cable up from the equator out beyond synchronous orbit, and we'll be putting drive trains, passenger cars and cargo cars all the way along it, going up and down.

The design was slighter and much more compact than mechanical drive trains, and there was built-in reliability: If one wheel failed, he could just keep motoring on three, or even two if they weren't on the same side.

The body, after all, is a machine, a marvelous machine made of many kinds of tissues and fluids, chemicals and minerals, a sophisticated assemblage with one heart-engine and a lot of little motors, a lubricating system and an aircooling system, ruled by the computer brain, with drive trains made out of muscles, all constructed upon a clever calcium frame.

The roar of racing engines, whose drive trains propelled steel tracks or wheels that merely spun in thin air, could not cover the screams of troops who had been just seconds from squashing their prey and now found themselves hurtling to their deaths.