non-articulated

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ articulated.

Adjective

non-articulated (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of nonarticulated.
   • 1941 September, “Recent American Eight-coupled Locomotives: American Locomotive Power”, in Railway Magazine, page 411:

     As to non-articulated wheel arrangements, the 4-8-2 and 4-8-4 proved the most popular, 60 of the former and 56 of the latter being ordered.

   • 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561:

     The first "K" class 4-8-4 appeared in 1932. Designed and built in New Zealand, these are probably the biggest non-articulated locomotives possible within the loading gauge.

   • 1961 February, “The 6,000 h.p. French electric locomotives for China”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91:

     At present the CC6Y2 is the world's three most powerful single-unit, non-articulated locomotive types.

References

• “non-articulated”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.