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  • adjective Mounted on tracks; said, for example, of a tank, crane, or other self-propelled heavy vehicle.

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Examples

  • The track-mounted Marion Model 20 had been one of the workhorses of the Panama Canal, a behemoth with a towering steam boiler housed inside an iconic red wooden cab.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • The track-mounted Marion Model 20 had been one of the workhorses of the Panama Canal, a behemoth with a towering steam boiler housed inside an iconic red wooden cab.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • HATFIELD: It is a track-mounted piece of equipment that is mounted with equipment that lets -- it lets the measure of the atmosphere contents, gases levels and such, and also I believe is camera equipped.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2006 2006

  • HATFIELD: I'm really not technically knowledgeable of it, other than to tell you that it's a-- approximately a 1,300-pound machine that's track-mounted or crawler mounted, which allows it to move independently.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2006 2006

  • But it's a robot that -- by that we mean a track-mounted piece of equipment that can move itself forward and it equipped with atmospheric measuring equipment as well as a camera, and that will, again, tell us what lies ahead of the rescue crews.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2006 2006

  • It was common practice for a vessel's cargo spaces to have track-mounted surveillance cameras, and there was one in each of Vega's holds.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • It was common practice for a vessel's cargo spaces to have track-mounted surveillance cameras, and there was one in each of Vega's holds.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • Merritt ran, jumped a track, and crouched low behind a series of track-mounted tele-cars with beige bins.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998

  • Merritt ran, jumped a track, and crouched low behind a series of track-mounted tele-cars with beige bins.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998

  • Each of the five regiments of these—the bulk of them concentrated in the British sector in Normandy—contained 60 or 70 projectors, some of them track-mounted.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

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