lubricating oil

English

Noun

lubricating oil (plural lubricating oils)

An oil for lubrication of engines and other components.
- 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 329:
  Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].

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“lubricating oil”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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