The driveshaft of an automobile transfers power from the engine to the wheels.
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Driveshaft
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20 translations across 14 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- عَمُود الدَّوَرَان noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Danish
1 entries- drivaksel noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Finnish
1 entries- vetoakseli noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
French
1 entries- arbre noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
German
2 entries- Antriebswelle noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
- Kardanwelle noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Macedonian
1 entries- вратило noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- drivaksel noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- drivaksel noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
- drivaksling noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Dreiwscheft noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Polish
1 entries- wał napędowy noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Portuguese
2 entries- eixo acionador noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
- eixo motor noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- vràtilo noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
- вра̀тило noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Spanish
3 entries- eje accionante noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
- eje transmisor noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
- árbol motor noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
Swedish
1 entries- drivaxel noun (a shaft used to transmit rotary motion)
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A windmill transmits motion to the ground level via a vertical driveshaft, which operates a water pump.
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