Usually means: Mineral oil used for lubrication.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. paraffin oil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. paraffin oil: Collins English Dictionary
  3. paraffin oil: Vocabulary.com
  4. paraffin-oil: Wordnik
  5. paraffin oil: Wiktionary
  6. paraffin oil: Dictionary.com
  7. Paraffin oil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. paraffin oil: Rhymezone
  9. paraffin oil: FreeDictionary.org
  10. paraffin oil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. paraffin oil: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paraffin oil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. paraffin oil: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. paraffin oil: Medical dictionary

(Note: See paraffin_oils as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (paraffin oil)

noun:  Any of the mineral burning oils associated with the manufacture of paraffin.

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