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drive shaft

drive shaft is the alternative form of driveshaft.

Meaning of driveshaft

Noun

driveshaft (plural driveshafts)

  1. A shaft used to transmit rotary motion.
    • The driveshaft of an automobile transfers power from the engine to the wheels.

Forms of drive shaft

pluraldrive shafts

Questions about drive shaft

What is drive shaft the alternative form of?
Drive shaft is the alternative form of driveshaft.

Words near drive shaft in the dictionary

  1. drive offs
  2. drive one's pigs to market
  3. drive out
  4. drive sale
  5. drive sales
  6. drive shaft
  7. drive shafts
  8. drive shed
  9. drive sheds
  10. drive someone crazy
  11. drive someone insane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drive shaft (page history and authors); driveshaft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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