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Definition: Crankshaft |
CrankshaftNoun1. A rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mechanical Engineering | A shaft driven by or driving a crank. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The crankshaft, together with the connecting rod, converts the power delivered to the piston by the burning gases from an up-and-down(reciprocating)motion to a rotary motion. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the Wankel engine, the rotors drive the eccentic shaft, which can be considered the equivalent of the crankshaft in a piston engine.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crankshaft."
Crosswords: Crankshaft |
| English words defined with "crankshaft": crankcase ♦ fan belt ♦ instroke ♦ outstroke ♦ reciprocating engine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crankshaft": AIR-CONDITIONING MECHANIC, automobile-refrigeration mechanic ♦ big end ♦ crank chamber, cranked portion of a shaft ♦ DIESEL-ENGINE ERECTOR, diesel-engine fitter ♦ ENGINE REPAIRER, PRODUCTION, EXPERIMENTAL MECHANIC, OUTBOARD MOTORS ♦ FISHING-REEL ASSEMBLER, force-feed lubrication, forked rod, form tamper, FORM-TAMPER OPERATOR, form-tamping-machine operator, full-pressure lubrification ♦ jigging screen ♦ LOCOMOTIVE LUBRICATING-SYSTEMS CLERK ♦ PRINT INSPECTOR ♦ reel assembler, river tester ♦ safety guard, semiautomatic transmission, sudden stoppage ♦ tamping-machine operator, road forms, three-throw ram pump. (references) |
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 | Production. Marine engines. A drilling operation on the crankshaft of a marine engine for the Navy. This workman in a Midwest plant can certify that every precaution is taken to assure the finest quality in every crankshaft produced. Continental Motors, M. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Grinding a crankshaft for a farm tractor engine in a large Midwestern implement plant before the machine was converted to the grinding of axles for marine cargo winches. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Crankshaft" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crankshaft" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crankshaft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kollodok, bosht me gunga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | колянов вал. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 曲轴. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | klikový hřídel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | krumtapaksel (crank shaft, crank-shaft, driving shaft, main shaft), forkroeppet aksel (crank shaft, cranked axle, crank-shaft, driving shaft, main shaft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verkropte as (crank shaft, crank-shaft, driving shaft, main shaft), krukas (crank shaft, cranked axle, crank-shaft, driving shaft, main shaft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | میل لنگ(مک.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vilebrequin (crank shaft), arbre-manivelle (crank shaft, crank-shaft), arbre de couche, arbre coude (crank shaft, crank-shaft), arbre coudé, arbre manivelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kurbelwelle (crank shaft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στροφαλοφόροσ άξων, στροφαλοφόρος άξονας (crank shaft, crank-shaft, driving shaft, main shaft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | forgattyús tengely, főtengely (arbor, principal axes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | albero a gomiti (crank shaft, crank-shaft, driving shaft, main shaft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 크랭크축. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | veivaksel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ankshaftcray cambota, virabrequim, eixo de manivela. (various references) коленчатый вал (bent shaft). (various references) radilica, kolenasto vratilo. (various references) cigüeñal (crank). (various references) vevaxel. (various references) колінчастий вал. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "crankshaft": crankshafts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crankshaft" (pronounced kra"ngksha'ft) |
| 4 | -sh a' f t | camshaft. |
| 3 | -a' f t | aircraft, antiaircraft, autographed, choreographed, downdraft, handcraft, handicraft, hovercraft, overdraft, overstaffed, photographed, spacecraft, stagecraft, statecraft, telegraphed, understaffed, updraft, witchcraft. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-h-k-n-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: hatracks. | |
-3 letters: anarchs, caftans, chakras, charkas, hatrack, kaftans, kantars, ransack. | |
-4 letters: anarch, arhats, ashcan, askant, caftan, carats, chakra, chants, charas, charka, charks, charts, crafts, cranks, fracas, francs, franks, kaftan, kantar, karats, krafts, nachas, ratans, sancta, shrank, snatch, stanch, starch, tankas, thacks, thanks, tracks, tranks. | |
-5 letters: afars, ankhs, antas, antra, araks, arhat, canst, cants, carat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-f-h-k-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: crankshafts. | |
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