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Flywheel   /flˈaɪwˌil/   Listen
Flywheel

noun
1.
Regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine.



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fluid flywheel


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"Flywheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... a connecting rod, a crank, and a sufficiently heavy flywheel might have been used in a conventional Newcomen engine in order to supply power to a rotating shaft, but contemporary evidence makes it clear that this solution was by no means obvious to Watt nor ...
— Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt • Eugene S. Ferguson
... what animals would be if they lacked restraint of habit. Man's power over them would cease instantly and their strength would be a terrible engine of destruction. Men would be as much worse as human intelligence exceeds brute intelligence. One is quite safe in declaring that habit is the great flywheel that regulates society." ...
— Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training • Mosiah Hall


Words linked to "Flywheel" :   regulator, fluid flywheel, governor


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