If the torque is too high, the shaft might break. That's why we are using a shear splint as a torque limiter.
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Splint
/splɪnt/
Synonyms for "splint" (71 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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More general
12 entriesMore specific
8 entriesankle splintarm splintdental splintfinger splintmetal splintplastic splintthumb splintwood splint
Collocations
11 entriesankle splintapply splintarm splintcarbon fiber splintdental splintfinger splintmetal splintsplint fracturesplint materialwood splintwooden splint
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
69 translations across 38 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- spalk noun (immobilizing device)
Albanian
1 entries- ashkël noun (narrow strip of wood)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- νάρθηξ noun (immobilizing device)
Bulgarian
3 entries- лента noun (narrow strip of wood)
- тънка ивица noun (narrow strip of wood)
- ши́на noun (immobilizing device)
Catalan
2 entries- fèrula noun (narrow strip of wood)
- fèrula noun (immobilizing device)
Czech
1 entries- dlaha noun (immobilizing device)
Dutch
1 entries- spalk noun (immobilizing device)
Finnish
2 entries- lasta noun (immobilizing device)
- säle noun (narrow strip of wood)
French
2 entries- attelle noun (immobilizing device)
- éclisse noun (narrow strip of wood)
Galician
2 entries- férula noun (immobilizing device)
- tala noun (narrow strip of wood)
German
2 entries- Gipsschiene noun (immobilizing device)
- Schiene noun (immobilizing device)
Hebrew
1 entries- סד noun (immobilizing device)
Hungarian
2 entries- gyújtópálca noun (narrow strip of wood)
- sín noun (immobilizing device)
Icelandic
1 entries- spelka noun (immobilizing device)
Indonesian
1 entries- bidai noun (immobilizing device)
Irish
2 entries- meathán (in basketweaving) noun (narrow strip of wood)
- spliota noun (narrow strip of wood)
Italian
4 entries- frammento noun (narrow strip of wood)
- scaglia noun (narrow strip of wood)
- scheggia noun (narrow strip of wood)
- stecca noun (narrow strip of wood)
Japanese
1 entries- 添木 noun (narrow strip of wood)
Latin
1 entries- serperastrum noun (immobilizing device)
Latvian
1 entries- skaida noun (narrow strip of wood)
Lithuanian
1 entries- įtvaras noun (immobilizing device)
Māori
1 entries- tāhū noun (immobilizing device)
Norwegian
1 entries- spjelke noun (immobilizing device)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- flis noun (narrow strip of wood)
- splint noun (narrow strip of wood)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- flis noun (narrow strip of wood)
- splint noun (narrow strip of wood)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- تخته noun (immobilizing device)
Polish
1 entries- szyna noun (immobilizing device)
Portuguese
3 entries- férula noun (narrow strip of wood)
- tala noun (narrow strip of wood)
- tala noun (immobilizing device)
Romanian
2 entries- atelă noun (immobilizing device)
- așchie noun (narrow strip of wood)
Russian
4 entries- дра́нка noun (narrow strip of wood)
- лубо́к noun (immobilizing device)
- лы́ко noun (narrow strip of wood)
- ши́на noun (immobilizing device)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- trȅska noun (narrow strip of wood)
- ȉver noun (narrow strip of wood)
- ȕdlaga noun (immobilizing device)
- и̏вер noun (narrow strip of wood)
Slovak
2 entries- dlaha noun (immobilizing device)
- latka noun (narrow strip of wood)
Spanish
2 entries- férula noun (immobilizing device)
- tablilla noun (immobilizing device)
Swedish
1 entries- skena noun (immobilizing device)
Tagalog
1 entries- balangkat noun (immobilizing device)
Turkish
1 entries- atel noun (immobilizing device)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ши́на noun (immobilizing device)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nẹp noun (immobilizing device)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Sami's parents splint.
Source: tatoeba (6694080)
The doctor put a splint on her arm.
Source: tatoeba (11766341)
[...] I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed.
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