DIESEL FUEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diesel fuel mean? 

• DIESEL FUEL (noun)
  The noun DIESEL FUEL has 1 sense:

1. a heavy mineral oil used as fuel in diesel engines

  Familiarity information: DIESEL FUEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIESEL FUEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A heavy mineral oil used as fuel in diesel engines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

diesel fuel; diesel oil

Hypernyms ("diesel fuel" is a kind of...):

fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diesel fuel"):

derv (diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines; from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle))

 Context examples 

A complex mixture of combustion products of diesel fuel including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, volatile hydrocarbons, aldehydes, alkenes, alkanes and nitroarenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other derivates.

(Diesel Exhaust Particulate, NCI Thesaurus)