"car mile" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: car miles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} car mile (plural car miles)
  1. (rail transport) A mile travelled by a single railway car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period. Categories (topical): Rail transportation
    Sense id: en-car_mile-en-noun-BNqHVWk5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport

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