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Aberration
noun · 78% connection
A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Backlash
noun · 78% connection
The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Bell crank
unknown · 78% connection
A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Breasting
noun · 78% connection
The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Breastwheel
noun · 78% connection
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Broad
superl. · 78% connection
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Bucket
noun · 78% connection
One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Channel
noun · 78% connection
That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Click
noun · 78% connection
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Clockwork
noun · 78% connection
The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Cog
noun · 78% connection
A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Counterbalance
noun · 78% connection
A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Crown wheel
unknown · 78% connection
A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Dead
adjective · 78% connection
Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Different
adjective · 78% connection
Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; differ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Director
noun · 78% connection
A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or pre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Dynamics
noun · 78% connection
That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their mot…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
Eccentric
noun · 78% connection
A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, broad, grooved, transmitting, power.
