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Driving wheel   /drˈaɪvɪŋ wil/   Listen
Driving wheel

noun
1.
A wheel that drives a motor vehicle (transforms torque into a tractive force).





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... whereby the water is heated, the water which is turned into steam, the piston on which the steam acts, the driving wheel, &c., &c., are all one as much as another a means whereby a train is made to go from one place to another; it is impossible to say that any one of them is the main means. So (mutatis mutandis) with modification. ...
— Evolution, Old & New - Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, - as compared with that of Charles Darwin • Samuel Butler


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