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Plural of crankshaft

regular plural

The plural of crankshaft is crankshafts.

Forms of crankshaft

Singularcrankshaft
Pluralcrankshafts
Countablecountable

Crankshafts in a sentence

  • Engineers did not think two crankshafts could be synchronized.1935 September, Popular Mechanics, volume 64, number 3, page 408. From the entry spline

Meaning of crankshaft

  1. noun A rotating shaft with throws (parts that stick out) and which drives, is driven by (cranked by), or functions as a crank.
  2. verb To deform in such a manner that part of the rod or bolt is displaced sideways, offset from the longitudinal axis of the part, but remains parallel with the part's main longitudinal axis, with the final shape somewhat resembling a crankshaft.

Full definition of crankshaft

Questions about the plural of crankshaft

What is the plural of crankshaft?
The plural of crankshaft is crankshafts.
Is crankshaft countable?
Crankshaft is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crankshaft (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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