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Definition: Disc Brake |
Disc BrakeNoun1. Hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of spinning disk by the brake pads. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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The design of the disc varies somewhat. Some are simply solid steel, but others are hollowed out with fins joining together the disc's two contact surfaces. This "ventilated" disc design helps to dissipate the generated heat. Many motorcycle brakes instead have many small holes drilled through them for the same purpose.
Experiments with disc-style brakes began in the 1890s, but the first designs resembling modern disc brakes began to appear in Britain in the late 1940s and early 1950s. They offered much greater stopping performance than comparable drum brakes, including much greater resistance to "brake fade" (caused by the overheating of brake components), and were unaffected by immersion (drum brakes were ineffective for some times after a water crossing, an important factor in off-road vehicles). They have now become standard in most passenger vehicles (though some retain the use of drums on rear brakes).
Carss, motorcycles, and some bicycles use disc brakes.
See also: drum brake
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Disc brake."
Synonym: Disc BrakeSynonym: disk brake (n). (additional references) |
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Expression using "disc brake": disc brake pad. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disc brake conversion | 56 |
disc brake | 50 |
disc brake pad | 43 |
disc brake kit | 36 |
disc brake rotors | 26 |
disc brake conversion kit | 24 |
disc brake caliper | 11 |
avid disc brake | 5 |
disc brake squeal | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "disc brake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | skivebremse (disk brake). (various references) | |
Dutch | schijfrem (disk brake). (various references) | |
French | frein à disques (disk brake), frein à disque (disk brake). (various references) | |
German | Scheibenbremse (disk brake). (various references) | |
Greek | δισκόφÏενο (disk brake). (various references) | |
Italian | freno a disco (disk brake). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iscday akebray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | travão de discos (disk brake), freio de disco. (various references) | |
Spanish | freno de discos (disk brake), freno de disco (disk brake). (various references) | |
Swedish | skivbroms. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-k-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ascribed, backside, carbides, diebacks. | |
-2 letters: abiders, ascribe, backers, bickers, braised, bricked, brisked, carbide, caribes, dackers, daikers, darbies, debarks, dickers, dieback, radices, scribed, seabird, sickbed, sidebar, sidecar. | |
-3 letters: abider, abides, aiders, arcked, ardebs, backed, backer, bakers, bardes, bardic, barked, basked, beards, biased, bicker, biders, bikers, braced, braces, braids, braise, braked, brakes, breads, breaks, bricks. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-k-r-s" | |
+1 letter: backslider, breadstick, rudbeckias. | |
+2 letters: backsliders, breadsticks. | |
+3 letters: blackbirders. | |
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