tractive

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exerting traction and serving to pull

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adjective

exerting traction and serving to pull

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tractive.

adjective

exerting traction and serving to pull

Example sentences

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I was wondering if they can be put up on poles holding train's electric tractive wires and then fed directly to the same wire.

According to the video about 100 kg tractive force is enough to get the locomotive moving.

Although their construction can avoid a full battery pack fire, if you don't shut down the tractive system immediately you will run current through them and charge them negatively.

Furthermore, there are almost certainly a number of places where you'll have to decouple and recouple the cars to a new locomotive when you cross country borders for various nationalistic and tractive reasons.

I'm really interested to hear some context around it from someone who knows what they're talking about; to me, it's a more appealing explanation than "conservation of momentum is wrong" or "we're using the quantum vacuum as a tractive medium which is supposed to be impossible but whatever".