Crossword clues for octane
octane
- Fuel figure
- Anti-knock number
- 87 or 89, at the pump
- Word in gas ads
- Station measure
- Stat on gas pumps
- Regular, midgrade and premium rating
- Rating for gasoline
- Rating at a pump
- Pump word
- Pump stat
- Pump grade
- Pump factor
- Petrol rating
- Number on the pump
- Number of gas stations?
- Number at the pump
- Measure of ping resistance
- Measure of autoignition resistance
- Isometric hydrocarbon )
- Hydrocarbon found in petrol — at once (anag)
- Grade in the high 80s or low 90s?
- Gasoline word
- Gasoline number
- Gas-rating word
- Gas-pump number
- Gas station rating
- Gas station number
- Gas station figure
- Gas range?
- Gas pump figure
- Gas info
- Fuel number
- Fuel measure
- Fuel datum
- Fuel calculation
- Flammable hydrocarbon — at once (anag)
- Filling station number
- Figure on a certain island
- Figure at the pump
- Component of gasoline
- Chevron's rating?
- Chevron figure
- At once (anag)
- Antiknock rating
- Anti-knock measure
- 93, e.g
- 89 or 93, commonly
- 87, say, at the pump
- 87, 89 or 93, on a gas pump
- 87 or 93
- 87 or 89, at a gas station
- 87 is a common one
- 87 for regular, e.g
- ___ number (gasoline rating)
- Antiknock number
- Gasoline rating number
- Numbered gas rating
- Gas rating number
- Gas pump rating
- 87 or 93 at the pump
- 93, e.g., at the pump
- Shell designation
- It's often in the 90's
- Gas pump number
- It may be in the low 90's
- Station rating?
- Shell figure
- Station number
- Station identification?
- Premium number
- 89 or 91, maybe
- Pump figure
- Fuel rating
- Power, so to speak
- It's usually in the 80s or 90s
- Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent
- ___ rating
- Order at a service station
- Gas-station word
- An oily hydrocarbon
- 93, e.g.
- Service-station word
- Gas-pump word
- Motor fuel rating
- Shipment to Kennedy
- Gasoline classification
- Chemical in petroleum at once exploding
- Flammable hydrocarbon - at once
- Hydrocarbon, brown, stored in old church
- Petrol has this running at once
- Pump rating
- Pump number
- Number on a pump
- Gas station sign
- Rating on a gas pump
- Rating at the pump
- 87 or 91, at the pump
- Pump measurement
- Petroleum number
- Fuel-rating number
- Word on a gas pump
- Pump measure
- Number reflecting rate of burn
- It prevents knocks
- Gas-pump rating number
- Gas pump word
- Gas number
- Fuel hydrocarbon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
octane \oc"tane\ ([o^]k"t[=a]n), n. [See Octa-] (Chem.) Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarbons ( C8H18) of the methane (paraffin) series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of gasoline or ligroin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C8H18) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents.
WordNet
n. any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent
Wikipedia
Octane is a hydrocarbon and an alkane with the chemical formula CH, and the condensed structural formula CH(CH)CH. Octane has many structural isomers that differ by the amount and location of branching in the carbon chain. One of these isomers, 2,2,4-trimethylpentane (isooctane) is used as one of the standard values in the octane rating scale.
Octane is a component of gasoline (petrol). As with all low molecular weight hydrocarbons, octane is volatile and very flammable.
Octane is a fictional character in the various Transformers universes.
Octane is an alkane with the chemical formula CH.
Octane is the eighth studio album by American progressive rock band Spock's Beard, released on 25 January 2005. The first seven tracks form a complete piece of work, "A Flash Before My Eyes", that tells the story of a man involved in a car accident who relives his memories in the moments following the crash.
A special edition release contained a second disc which contained five new tracks, outtakes from "A Flash Before My Eyes" and a video documenting the making of the album.
Octane (known as Pulse in the United States) is a 2003 thriller film directed by Marcus Adams and starring Madeleine Stowe, Mischa Barton and Norman Reedus. The film follows a divorced mother (Stowe) and her teenage daughter (Barton) on a late-night road trip, and the mother's battle to find her daughter after she gets caught up with a bizarre cult of young criminals at a truck stop. Shot largely in Luxembourg, the film features a soundtrack by dance duo Orbital.
Octane is a soundtrack composed by Orbital for horror road movie Octane and features 14 tracks. It was released by EMI in 2003.
Octane is a British car magazine, published monthly, and concentrating on classic and performance cars. It was launched in 2003 and is now published by Dennis Publishing. The magazine features news, road tests and buyers guides of both classic cars and some modern performance cars. It also has an extensive for sale section, showing cars from all around the world. It has a cover price of £4.70 in the United Kingdom and sells an average of 35,000 copies.
The Octane office is situated in Wollaston, Northamptonshire.
Octane is an active rock radio station on Sirius XM Satellite Radio channel 37 (previously 20) and Dish Network channel 6037. As a part of the Sirius XM Merger, Octane replaced the XM station SquiZZ on XM channel 48 (later moving to 37) and DirecTV channel 835 (until February 9, 2010) The channel is uncensored, and its musical focus is active rock in current development on. Core artists include Shinedown, Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, Alice in Chains, Drowning Pool, Pantera, Saliva, Tool, System of a Down, Three Days Grace, Evanescence, Anthrax, Rammstein, Rage Against the Machine, 10 Years, Five Finger Death Punch, Down, Staind, Godsmack, Korn, Rob Zombie, Nine Inch Nails, Static-X, Fear Factory, Audioslave, Seether, Slipknot, Lamb of God, Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for My Valentine, Killswitch Engage, Limp Bizkit, Skillet, and Metallica. Octane is a newer active rock music similar to that played on most hard rock-leaning terrestrial radio stations in the United States, similar to the old Squizz on XM. Octane had the most fans of any Sirius XM Satellite Radio station on Facebook with over 200,000.
Octane is one of four hard rock channels offered by Sirius XM Radio ( Hair Nation, Boneyard and Liquid Metal being the others). Faction also is associated with the hard rock category.
SiriusXM was inducted to the Rock Radio Hall of Fame in 2014 in the "Industry Leader Allstars" category.
Usage examples of "octane".
Shenzhen was a megalopolis in a hurry, a boom town city going at a furious pace twenty-four hours a day, running at full blast on the high octane fuel that was the most profane of words in all of Communist China: capitalism.
Back before all the friendly microbes of today that cheerfully turn our garbage into high octane, nonpolluting fuel or churn out the monoclonal antibodies that cure everything from colds to cancer.
He knew the blade capacity of each sword swallower and the octane rating of every fire eater.