connecting rod

English

a connecting rod (sense 1) with an old style of bearing

a piston and its connecting rod (sense 1) with aspects labeled

Pronunciation

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Noun

connecting rod (plural connecting rods)

2. (idiomatic, usually) A rod, inside a reciprocating engine, that connects a piston to the crankshaft.

   Alternative forms: con rod, conrod (clipped compound)

   Hypernyms: rod (elliptically synonymous) < auto part < part, component

   throw a connecting rod [ = when the reciprocating assembly flies apart, rarely]

   The engine threw a connecting rod at six thousand RPM and "ventilated" the engine block, as they say.

4. (sometimes) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see connecting,‎ rod: any rod that connects two other parts.

   There's a tiny connecting rod that links the actuator to this valve.

Related terms

• coupling rod

Translations

rod that transmits power or motion

• Belarusian: шатун (šatun)
• Catalan: biela
• Czech: ojnice f
• Dutch: drijfstang (nl)
• Estonian: keps (et)
• Finnish: kiertokanki (fi), kanki (fi)
• French: bielle (fr) f
• Galician: biela (gl)
• German: Pleuel (de) m, Pleuelstange (de) f
• Hebrew: טַלְטַל (he) m (taltal)
• Italian: biella (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: råde (no) m

  Nynorsk: råde m

• Polish: korbowód m
• Portuguese: biela (pt)
• Romanian: bielă (ro) f, bară de conectare f, bară de legătură f
• Russian: шату́н (ru) m (šatún)
• Serbo-Croatian: ojnica (sh) f
• Slovak: ojnica
• Slovene: ojnica
• Spanish: biela (es) f
• Swedish: vevstake (sv)
• Tagalog: panikad