Fuel-oil meaning

A liquid or liquefiable petroleum product that is used to generate heat or power.
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Any oil used for fuel; esp., a petroleum distillate used in diesel engines.
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A grade of oil used principally as a fuel.
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(specifically) The heaviest commercial fuel that can be obtained from crude oil.
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Sentence Examples

  • The Popo Agie and Lander fields produce the largest quantities of oil, the wells being partly gushers from which a heavy fuel oil is obtained.

  • ballast tank is adjacent to the fuel oil bunker tank.

  • cause fuel oil on the surface of the water was causing terrible problems for men waiting to be rescued.

  • conveyance of gasoline, fuel oil and cylinders and cartridges of liquefied hydrocarbon gas in vehicles on board the Vessels 20.

  • With Indirect gas or fuel oil the burner fires into a semi-sealed stainless steel heat exchanger over which the recirculating hot air passes.

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