English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] fly wheel
Pronunciation [ edit ] flywheel (plural flywheels
( mechanical engineering ) 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 .
1959 Trains Illustrated , page 123 :As on Nos. 20001-3, the motor and generator armature shafts of the new locomotive each carry a heavy flywheel to provide kinetic energy and help maintain the speed of the motor-generator set during interruptions of supply, as at breaks in the continuity of the conductor rail.
Hypernyms [ edit ] Hyponyms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] rotating mass
Arabic: حَدَّافَة f ( ḥaddāfa )
Armenian: թափանիվ (hy) ( tʻapʻaniv )
Azerbaijani: nazimçarx
Belarusian: махаві́к m ( maxavík ) , ма́хавае ко́ла n ( máxavaje kóla )
Bulgarian: махови́к m ( mahovík )
Catalan: volant d'inèrcia m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 飛輪 ／ 飞轮 (zh) ( fēilún )
Czech: setrvačník (cs) m
Danish: svinghjul n
Dutch: vliegwiel (nl) n
Estonian: hooratas
Finnish: vauhtipyörä (fi) , tasauspyörä
French: volant (fr) m volant d’inertie (fr)
Galician: volante de inercia m
Georgian: მქნევარა ( mknevara )
German: Schwungrad n
Greek: βολάν (el) n ( volán )
Hindi: गतिपालक चक्र m ( gatipālak cakra )
Hungarian: lendkerék (hu)
Icelandic: svinghjól n
Ido: flugroto (io)
Indonesian: roda gila (id)
Italian: volano (it) m
Japanese: フライホイール ( furaihoīru ) , 弾み車 ( はずみぐるま, hazumiguruma ) , 勢車 ( せいしゃ, seisha, はずみぐるま, hazumiguruma )
Kazakh: маховик ( maxovik )
Korean: 플라이휠 ( peullaihwil )
Kyrgyz: маховик ( mahovik )
Latvian: spararats m
Lithuanian: smagratis (lt) m
Macedonian: замаец m ( zamaec )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: svinghjul (no) n
Nynorsk: svinghjul n
Persian: چرخ لنگر ( čarx-e langar )
Polish: koło zamachowe n
Portuguese: volante (pt) m
Romanian: volant (ro) m
Russian: махови́к (ru) m ( maxovík ) , махово́е колесо́ n ( maxovóje kolesó )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: за́машња̄к m
Roman: zámašnjāk (sh) m
Slovak: zotrvačník m
Slovene: vztrajnik m
Spanish: volante (es) m
Swedish: svänghjul (sv) n
Tagalog: iikot
Thai: ล้อตุนกำลัง ( lɔ́ɔ-dtun-gam-lang )
Turkish: volan (tr)
Ukrainian: махови́к m ( maxovýk ) , ма́хове ко́лесо n ( máxove kóleso )
Uzbek: maxovik (uz)
Vietnamese: bánh đà
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