limited-slip differential

English

Noun

limited-slip differential (plural limited-slip differentials)

1. (mechanics) A type of differential gear used in automobile construction, allowing for output shafts to have different angular velocity, of a small range. [from 20th c.]
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 161:

     I gripped the iron bed with hands on which I had written the price of a limited slip differential.

Synonyms

• LSD (abbreviation)
• limited-slip diff (shortened form)

Hypernyms

• differential / differential gear
• transmission / transmission gear

Coordinate terms

• open differential
• locked differential
• locking differential
• unlocked differential
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