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gasoline definition

☆ gaso·line (gas′ə lēn′, gas′ə lēn′)

noun

a volatile, highly flammable, colorless liquid mixture of hydrocarbons produced by the fractional distillation of petroleum and used chiefly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
also gasolene gas′o·lene′

Etymology: gas + -ol + -ine

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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