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flywheels

flywheels is the plural of flywheel.

Meaning of flywheel

Noun

flywheel (plural flywheels)

  1. A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate, or as a form of energy storage.
    • They were fitted with flywheels 25 ft. in dia. and weighing 50 tons each. The energy stored in such flywheels is very great, and in this case was of the order of 7,000,000 lb./ft. each.1955 January, Charles E. Lee, “The Glasgow Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 24

Phrases with flywheels

Questions about flywheels

What is flywheels the plural of?
Flywheels is the plural of flywheel.

Words near flywheels in the dictionary

  1. flyweight
  2. flyweight pattern
  3. flyweight patterns
  4. flyweights
  5. flywheel
  6. flywheels
  7. flywhisk
  8. flywhisks
  9. flywire
  10. flywires
  11. flyworthy

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