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counter shaft

counter shaft is the alternative form of countershaft.

Meaning of countershaft

Noun

countershaft (plural countershafts)

  1. Synonym of jackshaft (“a mechanical component for rotational force”).
    • Instead of the pistons driving through the connecting-rods directly on to the wheels that carry the weight of the engine, the Drachenfels piston and connecting-rod drove on to a countershaft which carried two small cog wheels. The latter engaged with two larger gears, between which, and on the same...1952 December, John C. Gillham, “Rack Railways at Königswinter”, in Railway Magazine, page 843
    Synonyms:
    jackshaft

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Forms of counter shaft

pluralcounter shafts

Questions about counter shaft

What is counter shaft the alternative form of?
Counter shaft is the alternative form of countershaft.

Words near counter shaft in the dictionary

  1. counter payment
  2. counter payments
  3. Counter Reformation
  4. counter revolution
  5. counter revolutions
  6. counter shaft
  7. counter shafts
  8. counter statement
  9. counter statements
  10. counter strategies
  11. counter strategy

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