What is "tractive"

Usage examples of "tractive".

They inspected the powerful gasolene engines, saw how they worked the endless belts made of plates of jointed steel, which, running over sprocket wheels, really gave the tank its power by providing great tractive force.

Springback shuffled his booted feet on the hard, tractive surface of the Western Tangent, Eliatim smiled through his stiffly waxed mustache and suddenly lowered the bow, easing tension on the string.

Yvonne was twenty-five, slightly overweight but cheerful and at299 tractive, with long blond hair, innocent blue eyes and a milk-androses skin.

A locomotive depends for its tractive power on its weight pressing on its driving wheels, and the more driving wheels there are and the heavier the locomotive, the more it can pull, though in that case speed is lost.

Its springs are rather to be sought in a physical disadvantage--that is, in the mechanical inferiority of their frames, their relative lack of tractive capacity, their deficiency as brute engines.

He thought it fine that he should be thus selected as the favorite of the richest and most attractive girl in town.

Pneumatic transmission also proved to be much more reliable, more flexible, and to offer better tractive power on steep slopes and rough ground, and maximum speed was increased.

The most obvious explanation was that it had been fooled, that it had been tricked into moving itself here under its own power or been moved to this position via another tractive force over time.

Supplementing the six now on station, they will add tractive power sufficient to increase our daily progress from thirty-nine to forty-one nautical miles.

For a test load of 120 tons the tractive force is 70 lb per ton, which is sufficient for acceleration, and maintaining speed against wind pressure.

Instead, Castillo had a drink and watched the BBC television news until an at- tractive British Airways passenger service representative came and collected him and an ornately costumed, tall, jet-black couple he thought were probably from Nigeria for no good reason except they were smiling and having a good time.

The locomotives were first divided into classes according to their tractive power, this being calculated by the usual rule, with factors of size of cylinders, boiler pressure, and diameter of drivers, also by taking one-fourth of the weight on the drivers, and using the lesser of the two results as the tractive power.

When this weight fails to earn a credit in the way of tractive efficiency, it should not be present.

These platforms enable the tank to overcome all obstacles as the caterpillar tread is curved up in the arc of a huge circle at the front which gives the vehicle its wonderful tractive powers.

Decreasing the drive wheel diameter is the only way of increasing long-term tractive effort which does not require that the boiler and firebox be enlarged to pay for it.