flywheelnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈflaɪ.wiːl/us/ˈflaɪ.wiːl/specializeda heavy wheel in a machine that helps the machine to work at a regular speed
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- contraption
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- crank
- elevator
- humidifier
- lift
- Mk
- plant
- rotor
- selector
- sensitive
- vending machine
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- Electric current was obtained from a dynamo bolted on to the step of a twenty-horse-power car, and driven by a belt from the flywheel of the engine.
- He gave the flashlight a few more pumps to get its flywheel spinning, then passed it to her.
- In fact, I'm very careful, for there isn't much room between the rim of the flywheel and the keel, and even a small bit of waste will stop the wheel, just as this did.
- The dancing vibration of its flywheel seemed to regulate the volume of the noisy turbulence.
- There's something jammed down under the flywheel, between it and the keel of the boat, he said.