inclined plane

English

Noun

inclined plane (plural inclined planes)

1. (mechanics) One of the simple machines; a sloping surface such as a ramp such that an object can be raised with less effort than being lifted vertically.
   • 1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Fordell Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 188:

     On this railway there were three inclined planes of the self-acting type, the full wagons pulling up the empty.

Hyponyms

• ramp

Meronyms

• screw

Translations

simple machine

• Arabic: المُسْتَوِي المائِل (al-mustawī l-māʔil)
• Bengali: আনত তল (anot tol)
• Catalan: pla inclinat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斜面 (zh) (xiémiàn)

• Czech: nakloněná rovina f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: hellend vlak n
• Finnish: kalteva taso (fi)
• French: plan incliné (fr) m
• German: schiefe Ebene (de) f
• Hindi: आनत समतल (ānat samtal)
• Hungarian: lejtő (hu)
• Indonesian: bidang miring
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: satah condong
• Malayalam: ചരിവുതലം (carivutalaṁ)
• Newar: पाःलूगु समथर (pā:lūgu samathara)
• Polish: równia pochyła f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: plan înclinat (ro)
• Russian: наклонная плоскость (ru) f (naklonnaja ploskostʹ)
• Spanish: plano inclinado (es) m
• Tagalog: dahilig
• Tamil: சாய்தளம் (cāytaḷam)
• Vietnamese: mặt phẳng nghiêng (vi)