Plural of flywheel
regular plural
The plural of flywheel is flywheels.
Forms of flywheel
| Singular | flywheel |
|---|---|
| Plural | flywheels |
| Countable | countable |
Flywheels in a sentence
- They were fitted with flywheels 25 ft. in dia. and weighing 50 tons each.1955 January, Charles E. Lee, “The Glasgow Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 24
- These units are the electrogyros, which work first as motors, taking electrical energy from a three-phase supply, and converting it into kinetic energy, which is stored in the flywheels.1958 June, “N.C.B. Electrogyro Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 421. From the entry kinetic energy
- Known as an electrogyro locomotive, it derives its haulage power from energy stored in two flywheels, each of which is combined with a squirrel-cage induction motor.1958 June, “N.C.B. Electrogyro Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 421. From the entry squirrel-cage motor
Meaning of flywheel
- noun 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.
Questions about the plural of flywheel
- What is the plural of flywheel?
- The plural of flywheel is flywheels.
- Is flywheel countable?
- Flywheel is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: flywheel (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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