Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word fly-wheel.

Examples

  • MurataGirl maintains her balance by arbitrarily controlling rotation of the wheel for front-to-back direction, and rotation of the fly-wheel built into her chest for side-to-side direction, controlled by signals from the gyro sensor.

    Robotic - Fareastgizmos.com 2010

  •      Look here: I check the magneto, the coil, the fly-wheel, the spark plug of your lawn mower.

    Six Quarters 2010

  • The White House may think it and Democratic incumbents can simply pocket the credit for whatever fly-wheel growth shows up the next six months.

    It's Still the Economy, Stupid 2009

  • MurataGirl maintains her balance by arbitrarily controlling rotation of the wheel for front-to-back direction, and rotation of the fly-wheel built into her chest for side-to-side direction, controlled by signals from the gyro sensor.

    September 2009 - Fareastgizmos.com 2009

  • He began to find it necessary to act the part of a fly-wheel towards the somewhat irregular forces of his visitor.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • This particular “trusty” could no more understand Cowperwood than could a fly the motions of a fly-wheel; but with the cocky superiority of the underling of the world he did not hesitate to think that he could.

    The Financier 2004

  • The production rate can be determined in advance through the choice of a larger or smaller fly-wheel.

    Chapter 13 1991

  • The production rate can be determined in advance through the choice of a larger or smaller fly-wheel Fitted on a robust base frame with four wheels, the CERAMATIC can easily be moved from site to site.

    Chapter 17 1988

  • Pressure is applied by a fly-wheel screw press which can be operated manually.

    1. Refractories 1987

  • Let us then, by a quick-release mechanism, allow the muscle to shorten suddenly and let us hinder its contraction by opposing it to the inertia of a mass; the mass employed may be either a fly-wheel, or an equilibrated beam, or a weight hanging on a long string and pulled horizontally.

    Archibald V. Hill - Nobel Lecture 1965

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.