单词 | coning |
释义 | coningn. 1. The making of a cone-shaped tread (of a wheel); the condition of being coned (see coned adj. 2). ΚΠ 1837 W. B. Adams Eng. Pleasure Carriages 297 The coning of the wheels must also act like a wedge... This, together with the coning of the wheels, would make a nearly perfect railway carriage. 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 85 Coning, the turning of the taper on the diameters of railway wheels and crane and turntable rollers. 1906 Times Engin. Suppl. 12 Sept. 291/2 The coning of the wheels and the slight inward cant of the rails. 2. Aeronautics. The action of the rotor blades of a helicopter slanting upwards when in motion so as to produce a cone-shaped pattern of rotation; hence coning angle: the angle at which the rotor blades rise in coning. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > parts of rotary wing aircraft > rotor > operation or condition of rotor autorotation1908 coning1931 flapping1937 windmill brake state1948 feathering1970 1931 J. de la Cierva Wings of Tomorrow vii. 102 I supposed that it was preferable to keep the blades from coning, so that they would remain in a horizontal position while in flight. 1944 H. F. Gregory Anything Horse can Do 148 The angle the blade [of the rotor] makes with the horizontal is known as the coning angle. 1955 R. N. Liptrot & J. D. Woods Rotorcraft v. 49 The physical effect of coning is to move all elements of the blade nearer to the axis of rotation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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