wheelbase

English

Etymology

wheel +‎ base

Noun

wheelbase (plural wheelbases)

1. the horizontal distance between the front and rear axles of a road or rail vehicle.
   • 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, “Kala Nao,”^[1]

     Beneath the snow, and after we had left it behind, the road was as greasy as vaseline, as steep as a scenic railway, and often not a yard wider than the lorry’s wheelbase.

Related terms

• track : the distance between the opposite wheels on a same axletree.

Translations

distance btw. axles

• Finnish: akseliväli (fi)
• French: empattement (fr) m
• German: Achsabstand (de) m, Achsstand m, Radstand m
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• Greek: μεταξόνιο (el) n (metaxónio)
• Russian: колёсная ба́за f (koljósnaja báza)