Then his 27-year-old grandson, Matt Jost, struggles with a large flywheel to start the tractor.
Source: tatoeba (11204780)
Flywheel
Synonyms for "flywheel" (12 found)
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60 translations across 49 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- حَدَّافَة noun (rotating mass)
Armenian
1 entries- թափանիվ noun (rotating mass)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- nazimçarx noun (rotating mass)
Belarusian
2 entries- ма́хавае ко́ла noun (rotating mass)
- махаві́к noun (rotating mass)
Bulgarian
1 entries- махови́к noun (rotating mass)
Catalan
1 entries- volant d'inèrcia noun (rotating mass)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 飛輪 /飞轮 noun (rotating mass)
Czech
1 entries- setrvačník noun (rotating mass)
Danish
1 entries- svinghjul noun (rotating mass)
Dutch
1 entries- vliegwiel noun (rotating mass)
Estonian
1 entries- hooratas noun (rotating mass)
Finnish
3 entries- tasauspyörä noun (rotating mass)
- vastuspyörä noun (rotating mass)
- vauhtipyörä noun (rotating mass)
French
2 entries- volant noun (rotating mass)
- volant d'inertie noun (rotating mass)
Galician
1 entries- volante de inercia noun (rotating mass)
Georgian
1 entries- მქნევარა noun (rotating mass)
German
1 entries- Schwungrad noun (rotating mass)
Greek
1 entries- βολάν noun (rotating mass)
Hindi
1 entries- गतिपालक चक्र noun (rotating mass)
Hungarian
1 entries- lendkerék noun (rotating mass)
Icelandic
1 entries- svinghjól noun (rotating mass)
Ido
1 entries- flugroto noun (rotating mass)
Indonesian
1 entries- roda gila noun (rotating mass)
Italian
1 entries- volano noun (rotating mass)
Japanese
3 entries- フライホイール noun (rotating mass)
- 勢車 noun (rotating mass)
- 弾み車 noun (rotating mass)
Kazakh
1 entries- маховик noun (rotating mass)
Korean
1 entries- 플라이휠 noun (rotating mass)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- маховик noun (rotating mass)
Latvian
1 entries- spararats noun (rotating mass)
Lithuanian
1 entries- smagratis noun (rotating mass)
Macedonian
1 entries- замаец noun (rotating mass)
Māori
1 entries- tōhito noun (rotating mass)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- svinghjul noun (rotating mass)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- svinghjul noun (rotating mass)
Persian
1 entries- چرخ لنگر noun (rotating mass)
Polish
2 entries- koło rozpędowe noun (rotating mass)
- koło zamachowe noun (rotating mass)
Portuguese
1 entries- volante noun (rotating mass)
Romanian
1 entries- volant noun (rotating mass)
Russian
2 entries- махови́к noun (rotating mass)
- махово́е колесо́ noun (rotating mass)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zámašnjāk noun (rotating mass)
- за́машња̄к noun (rotating mass)
Slovak
1 entries- zotrvačník noun (rotating mass)
Slovene
1 entries- vztrajnik noun (rotating mass)
Spanish
2 entries- volante noun (rotating mass)
- volante inercial noun (rotating mass)
Swedish
1 entries- svänghjul noun (rotating mass)
Tagalog
1 entries- iikot noun (rotating mass)
Thai
1 entries- ล้อตุนกำลัง noun (rotating mass)
Turkish
1 entries- volan noun (rotating mass)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ма́хове ко́лесо noun (rotating mass)
- махови́к noun (rotating mass)
Uzbek
1 entries- maxovik noun (rotating mass)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bánh đà noun (rotating mass)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
They were fitted with flywheels 25 ft. in dia. and weighing 50 tons each. The energy stored in such flywheels is very great, and in this case was of the order of 7,000,000 lb./ft. each.
Source: wiktionary
As on Nos. 20001-3, the motor and generator armature shafts of the new locomotive each carry a heavy flywheel to provide kinetic energy and help maintain the speed of the motor-generator set during interruptions of supply, as at breaks in the continuity of the conductor rail.
Source: wiktionary
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