Usually means: Fuel oil derived from petroleum.
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  1. kerosene: Merriam-Webster
  2. kerosene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kerosene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kerosene: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kerosene: Vocabulary.com
  6. Kerosene, kerosene: Wordnik
  7. kerosene: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Kerosene: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. kerosene: Wiktionary
  10. kerosene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. kerosene (kerosine): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. kerosene: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. kerosene: Dictionary.com
  14. kerosene: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. kerosene: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Kerosene (Miranda Lambert song), Kerosene (album), Kerosene (disambiguation), Kerosene (song), Kerosene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Kerosene: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. kerosene: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. kerosene: Rhymezone
  20. Kerosene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. Kerosene: American-Britih Dictionary
  22. kerosene: FreeDictionary.org
  23. kerosene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. kerosene: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. kerosene: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kerosene: Energy Dictionary

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  1. kerosene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. kerosene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Kerosene: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  5. kerosene: Medical dictionary
  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kerosene: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Kerosene: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering
  3. Energy Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  5. KEROSENE: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel, heavier than gasoline/petrol or naphtha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas.

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