flywheel

English

Etymology

fly +‎ wheel

Noun

flywheel (plural flywheels)

1. (mechanical engineering) A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate, or as a form of energy storage.
   • 1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 123:

     As on Nos. 20001-3, the motor and generator armature shafts of the new locomotive each carry a heavy flywheel to provide kinetic energy and help maintain the speed of the motor-generator set during interruptions of supply, as at breaks in the continuity of the conductor rail.

Hypernyms

• wheel

Hyponyms

• reaction wheel

Translations

rotating mass

• Bulgarian: маховик m (mahovik)
• Catalan: volant d'inèrcia m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛輪／飞轮 (zh) (fēilún), 飞轮 (zh) (fēilún)

• Czech: setrvačník (cs) m
• Danish: svinghjul n
• Dutch: vliegwiel (nl) n
• Finnish: vauhtipyörä (fi), tasauspyörä
• French: volant (fr) m, volant d’inertie (fr)
• Galician: volante de inercia m
• German: Schwungrad n
• Icelandic: svinghjól n
• Ido: flugroto (io)
• Indonesian: roda gila (id)
• Italian: volano (it) m
• Japanese: フライホイール (furaihoīru), 弾み車 (はずみぐるま, hazumiguruma), 勢車 (はずみぐるま, hazumiguruma)
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• Macedonian: замаец m (zamaec)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svinghjul (no) n

  Nynorsk: svinghjul n

• Polish: koło zamachowe n
• Portuguese: volante (pt) m
• Romanian: volant (ro) m
• Russian: махови́к (ru) m (maxovík)
• Serbo-Croatian: zamašnjak (sh) m
• Spanish: volante (es) m
• Swedish: svänghjul (sv) n
• Tagalog: iikot
• Turkish: volan (tr)
• Vietnamese: bánh đà

See also

• angular momentum

References

• flywheel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia