flywheel

English

Etymology

fly +‎ wheel

Noun

flywheel (plural flywheels)

1. (automotive) 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.

Hypernyms

• wheel

Translations

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

• Bulgarian: маховик m (mahovik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛輪 (zh), 飞轮 (zh) (fēilún)

• Czech: setrvačník m
• Dutch: vliegwiel n
• Finnish: vauhtipyörä, tasauspyörä
• French: volant (fr) m, volant d'inertie (fr)
• German: Schwungrad n
• Ido: flugroto (io)
• 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)
• Macedonian: замаец m (zámaec)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svinghjul (no) n

  Nynorsk: svinghjul n

• Portuguese: volante (pt) m
• Russian: махови́к (ru) m (maxovík)
• Tagalog: iikot
• Turkish: volan (tr)

See also

• angular momentum

References

• flywheel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia