free-running

See also: free running and freerunning

English

Adjective

free-running (comparative freer running, superlative freest running)

(of a mechanism) Moving freely and smoothly.
- 1961 November, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:
  It is the Bulleid Pacifics of the Southern Region, which all observers of locomotive performance know to be among the freest running engines in the country.

References

“free-running” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2020.

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