a liquid petroleum product having a flash point above 37.8°C: used as a substitute for coal in industrial furnaces, domestic heaters, ships, and locomotives
fuel oil in American English
US
any oil used for fuel; esp., a petroleum distillate used in diesel engines
fuel oil in the Oil and Gas Industry
(fyuəl ɔɪl)
noun
(Extractive engineering: Refinery processes, Oil)
Fuel oil is the heavy oil used for furnace burners or boilers.
Fuel oil is a dark heavy hydrocarbon, slightly more viscous than the crude from which it wasobtained, and which is used in boilers and furnaces.
A typical noncondensing, mid-efficiency oil furnace uses 28 to 33 percent less fuel oil than a conventional oil furnace.
Fuel oil is the heavy oil used for furnace burners or boilers.
Examples of 'fuel oil' in a sentence
fuel oil
The mist coiled into the cave, a cloud of acrid dust tinged with fuel oil.
Ballard, J. G. RUSHING TO PARADISE (2003)
I came to the surface, swallowing and gagging water mixed with fuel oil.
Jenkins, Geoffrey A DAYSTAR OF FEAR (2003)
With no refined fuel oil from Alaska, the only solution had to be road transportation.