FLYWHEEL meaning: Energy storage through rotational motion

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flywheel: Merriam-Webster
flywheel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
flywheel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
flywheel: Collins English Dictionary
flywheel: Vocabulary.com
Flywheel, flywheel: Wordnik
flywheel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Flywheel, Flywheel: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
flywheel: Wiktionary
flywheel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
flywheel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
flywheel: Infoplease Dictionary
flywheel: Dictionary.com
Flywheel (disambiguation), Flywheel (film), Flywheel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
flywheel: Rhymezone
flywheel: FreeDictionary.org
flywheel: Mnemonic Dictionary
flywheel: TheFreeDictionary.com
flywheel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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flywheel: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun: (mechanical engineering) 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, or as a form of energy storage.

Opposite:

brake, stopper, decelerator, retarder

Types:

gyroscope, gyrocompass, more...

Phrases:

Flywheel effect, fluid flywheel, Flywheel energy storage, Dual-mass flywheel, Flywheel training, more...

Adjectives:

heavy, large, small, rotating, iron, spinning, huge, enormous, loose, big, massive

Colors:

steel gray, rust red, metallic silver, charcoal, cobalt blue, more...

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