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Prony brake

Prony brake noun: a device to measure the torque produced by an engine, essentially by wrapping a cord or belt around the output shaft and measuring the force transferred to the belt through friction.

Noun

Prony brake (plural Prony brakes)

  1. A device to measure the torque produced by an engine, essentially by wrapping a cord or belt around the output shaft and measuring the force transferred to the belt through friction.

Prony brake meaning in Tamil

Prony brake in Tamil

புரோனித்தடுப்பு

Forms of Prony brake

pluralProny brakes

Origin of Prony brake

Invented by Gaspard de Prony in 1821.

Questions about Prony brake

What does Prony brake mean?
Prony brake means a device to measure the torque produced by an engine, essentially by wrapping a cord or belt around the output shaft and measuring the force transferred to the belt through friction.
What is Prony brake in Tamil?
Prony brake in Tamil is புரோனித்தடுப்பு. See Prony brake meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Prony brake?
Prony brake is a noun.
What is the plural of Prony brake?
The plural of Prony brake is Prony brakes.

Words near Prony brake in the dictionary

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  11. Pronzini

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Prony brake (page history and authors); prony brake (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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