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brakeage en · NOUN

Etymology

From brake + -age.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The braking of a vehicle.
    • […] will begin to move slowly backward, reversing the motion of the motor, the compression of which affords some brakeage. 1985, Robert Thompson Sloss, The Book of the Automobile, page 210:
    • That for trains of more than 16 carriages the energy of the brakes at the beginning of the brakeage decreased rapidly beyond the sixteenth carriage, which led to the conclusion […] that the electromagnet employed did not yet present a sufficient resistance, […] 1883, The Railway Engineer, volume 4, page 253: