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Definition of Lubricating oil

1. Noun. A thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lubricating Oil

Literary usage of Lubricating oil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"«Relation of Carbon to lubricating oil The oil film which protects the friction ... Due mostly to the use of poor grade of lubricating oil or too much oil, ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1867)
"It also contained instructions whereby to obtain the value of a specimen of crude oil or of petroleum as sources of spirit, photogen, lubricating oil, ..."

3. Asphalts and Allied Substances: Their Occurrence, Modes of Production, Uses by Herbert Abraham (1920)
"(2) Gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, gas or fuel oil, and lubricating oil, in which event the residuum will be of a semi-solid to solid consistency, ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1886)
"Mineral lubricating oil. The products classed under the above title are obtained ... In the case of petroleum the lubricating oil has not always undergone ..."

5. The Early and Later History of Petroleum: With Authentic Facts in Regard to by J. T. Henry (1873)
"THE FRANKLIN lubricating oil DISTRICT. The Franklin lubricating oil district, lies in and around the city of Franklin, and is made up, for the most part, ..."

6. Lubricating Engineer's Handbook: A Reference Book of Data, Tables and by John Rome Battle (1916)
"A liberal supply of lubricating oil should be applied at this point, to reduce the possibility of overheating the stuffing box. Lost Capacity. ..."

7. Petroleum: A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological by Sir Boverton Redwood (1896)
"... of lubricating oil, and 12 per cent. of vaseline and paraffin-like products could bo obtained from it. Another sample, from a shaft 28 metres in depth, ..."

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