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Bowden cables

Bowden cables is the plural of Bowden cable.

Meaning of Bowden cable

Noun

Bowden cable (plural Bowden cables)

  1. A flexible cable used to transmit mechanical force by the movement of an inner cable (most commonly of steel) relative to a hollow outer housing.
    • Unfortunately, designers apparently forgot that the laws of sliding friction apply inside a Bowden cable just as they do at braking surfaces. The force transmitted by the inner cable is continuously reduced, particularly around bends, according to the formula […].2004, David Gordon Wilson, Bicycling Science, third edition, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 253

Questions about Bowden cables

What is Bowden cables the plural of?
Bowden cables is the plural of Bowden cable.

Words near Bowden cables in the dictionary

  1. bowcatted
  2. bowcatting
  3. bowdacious
  4. Bowden
  5. Bowden cable
  6. Bowden cables
  7. Bowdish
  8. Bowdishes
  9. Bowditch
  10. Bowditch effect
  11. Bowditch effects

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