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non-articulated en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + articulated.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of nonarticulated.
    • As to non-articulated wheel arrangements, the 4-8-2 and 4-8-4 proved the most popular, 60 of the former and 56 of the latter being ordered. 1941 September, “Recent American Eight-coupled Locomotives: American Locomotive Power”, in Railway Magazine, page 411:
    • At present the CC6Y2 is the world's three most powerful single-unit, non-articulated locomotive types. 1961 February, “The 6,000 h.p. French electric locomotives for China”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91:
    • The first "K" class 4-8-4 appeared in 1932. Designed and built in New Zealand, these are probably the biggest non-articulated locomotives possible within the loading gauge. 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561: