Word.ws English Dictionary

limit screw

limit screw noun: a screw used to adjust some mechanical limit.

Noun

limit screw (plural limit screws)

  1. A screw used to adjust some mechanical limit.
    1. A type of screw used in the derailleurs of a bicycle to set the maximum and minimum range of the derailleur's movement.
      • Shift the chain to the inner ring, and then tighten one of the limit screws. If turning that screw moves the front derailleur outward, then it is the low-gear limit screw.2024, Lennard Zinn, Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance, 6th edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 81

Forms of limit screw

plurallimit screws

Questions about limit screw

What does limit screw mean?
Limit screw means a screw used to adjust some mechanical limit.
What part of speech is limit screw?
Limit screw is a noun.
What is the plural of limit screw?
The plural of limit screw is limit screws.

Words near limit screw in the dictionary

  1. limit ordinal
  2. limit ordinals
  3. limit out
  4. limit point
  5. limit points
  6. limit screw
  7. limit screws
  8. limit situation
  9. limit situations
  10. limit superior
  11. limit switch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: limit 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: “limit screw.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/limit_screw. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.