katrol

Dutch

Een vaste katrol
A fixed pulley

Pronunciation

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Noun

katrol f or m (plural katrollen, diminutive katrolletje n)

1. a pulley

Derived terms

• katrolschijf

Descendants

• → Indonesian: katrol
• → Papiamentu: katròl

Indonesian

Sebuah katrol
A pulley

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch katrol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkatrɔl]
• Hyphenation: kat‧rol

Noun

katrol

1. pulley, one of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance)

   Synonyms: kapi, kerek, takal

Derived terms

• katrolan
• mengatrol

Further reading

• “katrol”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016