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flywheel

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flywheel is a 2003 American Christian drama film about the unexpected pitfalls that a used car dealer can expect to experience if he suddenly goes honest. The dealer intentionally overcharges his customers until reaching a turning point in his life where ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A bright green flywheel with decorated spokes. ▪ At night, the rotational energy of these flywheels could be tapped to run generators. ▪ He fell into a big flywheel . ▪ He was fearful that the bearings might seize; if that happened, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smoothes the operation of a reciprocating engine

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
flywheel \flywheel\ n. A heavy wheel or disk which stores kinetic energy by rotating on a shaft, and by its momentum smoothes the operation of a reciprocating engine by reducing fluctuations of speed. It is used in certain types of machinery, such as automobiles. ...

Usage examples of flywheel.

Chains swing deadweight like useless limbs, snapping into zombie motion where cogs engage and flywheels turn.

Balthasar had his hand poised on his flywheel to respond the moment Luis called him into a shot.

Tyrel looks at the swiftly stroking rods, the planetary gear, and the flywheel.

Probably torn some teeth off your flywheel, the starter gear hits that dead spot and just spins.

The power source for this kind of vehicle might be a turbine, until heat-seeking missiles force a change to fuel cells or, for lagniappe, a set of flywheels mounted in different parts of the chassis.

Beneath the light unit, a motor hummed and heavily greased cables slid around a spinning flywheel.

The disk acts like an enormous rotating flywheel, driving currents and mass flow both up and down from the disk.

I went over the rear axle casing, propeller shaft tunnel, flywheel housing, crankcase flanges and trays while the building creaked and the draught chilled my bones and the bastard began laughing softly with that awful laugh of his that turned to coughing because of the cigarette smoke.

While other workers screw in the air filter (seventeen seconds) and attach the starter motor (twenty-six seconds) and put on the flywheel.

And in the center of it all, an enormous steam Wurlitzer pounded and thrummed, flywheel spinning, slide valves popping, with shafts and belts connected to an incredible Rube Goldberg concoction of rocking cranks, syncopating levers, undulat­ing cams, whirling gear trains, and nodding tappets, all acting out its cycle of interlocked motions with a complexity and ingenuity that astonished even Hunt.