Word.ws English Dictionary

Hindley's screw

Hindley's screw noun: a screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into whose teeth the screw is intended to work.

Noun

Hindley's screw (plural not attested)

  1. (historical, no plural) A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into whose teeth the screw is intended to work.

Origin of Hindley's screw

Named after Henry Hindley.

Questions about Hindley's screw

What does Hindley's screw mean?
Hindley's screw means a screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into whose teeth the screw is intended to work.
What part of speech is Hindley's screw?
Hindley's screw is a noun.

Words near Hindley's screw in the dictionary

  1. hindleg
  2. hindlegs
  3. Hindles
  4. Hindley
  5. Hindley Green
  6. Hindley's screw
  7. Hindley-Milner type system
  8. Hindley-Milner type systems
  9. Hindleys
  10. hindlimb
  11. hindlimbs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hindley's screw (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Hindley's screw.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hindley%27s_screw. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.