toggle joint
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
toggle joint (plural toggle joints)
- A mechanical linkage of the type of an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure when brought into this position.
- 2009, Ross Thomson, Structures of change in the mechanical age, page 48:
- A toggle joint, which used a lever system to multiply power, replaced the screw mechanism for forcing down the impression-forming platen.
Translations[edit]
joint of two bars connected in an elbow or knee
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References[edit]
- “toggle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.