preselective
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editpreselective (not comparable)
- Relating to preselection
- That can select in advance.
- 1950 July, “Diesel Train Services for G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 490:
- The drive from the engine is taken through a fluid flywheel and universally jointed shaft to the counter-shaft and thence to a five-speed preselective type epicyclic gearbox by another shaft.