disc brake

English

disc brake on a bicycle wheel

Alternative forms

• disk brake

Noun

disc brake (plural disc brakes)

1. (automotive, cycling, British spelling) A type of brake where the friction is produced by brake pads which are pressed against a disc (or rotor) made of steel or ceramic.

   Coordinate term: rim brake

   • 1958 July, “German Railbuses for German Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 501:

     The railbuses are equipped with automatic compressed air disc brakes; in the event of failure causing reduced pressure in the brake pipe, the brakes are automatically operated.

Related terms

• brake disc

Translations

type of brake

• Basque: disko-balazta
• Catalan: fre de disc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碟式軔機 / 碟式轫机 (diéshìshūjī)

• Dutch: schijfrem (nl) f
• Finnish: levyjarru (fi)
• French: frein à disque (fr) m
• German: Scheibenbremse (de) f
• Greek: δισκόφρενο (el) n (diskófreno)
• Hungarian: tárcsafék (hu)
• Indonesian: rem cakram (id)
• Italian: freno a disco (it) m
• Korean: 디스크 브레이크 (diseukeu beureikeu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skivebrems m

• Persian: ترمز دیسکی (fa)
• Polish: hamulec tarczowy m
• Russian: ди́сковый то́рмоз m (dískovyj tórmoz)
• Swedish: skivbroms c
• Turkish: disk fren
• Ukrainian: дискове гальмо n (dyskove halʹmo)
• Vietnamese: đĩa thắng

References

• “disc brake”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.