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Definition: Wheelbase |
WheelbaseNoun1. The distance from the center of a car's front wheel to the rear axle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mechanical Engineering | Distance between the centre of the rear wheel and the centre of the front wheel on the same side of the automobile. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | The distance between the centers of two consecutive wheels. In the case of vehicles with more than two axles or equivalent systems, the successive wheelbases are all given in the order front to rear of the vehicle. (references) |
Mining | The distance between the contact points on the front and back wheels ofany vehicle and the surface upon which the vehicle travels. (references) |
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| "Wheelbase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "Wheelbase" is used about 33 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) | 96.97% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "wheelbase": long-wheelbase, short-wheelbase. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wheelbase | 16 |
home page wheelbase | 5 |
altered wheelbase | 4 |
jeep wheelbase | 2 |
astro van wheelbase | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "wheelbase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | междуосие. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 轴距. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | akselafstand (axle base, axle spacing, distance between inside faces of flanges, distance between insides of rims, distance between insides of tyres, wheel base, wheel track). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wielbasis (wheel base, wheel track), radstand (wheel base, wheel spacing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فاصله بین محورجلووعقب اتومبیل . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | empattement (wheel base). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Radstand (wheel base). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεταξόνιο (wheel track), απόσταση μεταξύ αξόνων αυτοκίνητου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tengelytávolság, futómû nyomtáv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | passo (excerpt, footprint, footstep, pace, pass, passage, rate, step, stride, tread, walk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | queeyl-lhiurid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eelbasewhay distância entre os eixos (wheel track). (various references) колесный база. (various references) paso (advance, advances, clearing, crossing, deed, despatch, dispatch, doorway, drawing, dried, duct, entrée, exaltation, foot walk, footfall, footprint, footstep, fullness, fulness, gait, gangway, gate, gulf, gut, hangar, ignorance, jars, jaunt, lead, line, move, movement, overtaking, pace, pass, passage, passageway, passing, path, pitch, progress, shooting, stair, step, Strait, straits, stride, tack, thoroughfare, track, transition, tread, walk, walkout), distancia entre los ejes (wheel track), batalla (action, battle, fight, fighting, scuffle, struggle). (various references) hjulbas (wheel-base). (various references) tekerlek açıklığı, dingil açıklığı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "wheelbase": wheelbases. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wheelbase" (pronounced wē"lbā's or hwē"lbā's) |
| 3 | -b ā' s | database, diabase. |
| 3 | -b ā' s | database, diabase. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-h-l-s-w" | |
-2 letters: hewable, seeable, sewable. | |
-3 letters: abeles, weasel, whales, wheals, wheels. | |
-4 letters: abele, ables, bales, bawls, blahs, blase, blaws, easel, hales, hawse, heals, hebes, heels, lease, leash, sable, selah, shale, shawl, sheal, swale, wales, weals, welsh, whale, wheal, wheel. | |
-5 letters: able, albs, alee, ales, awee, awes, awls, bale, bals, base, bash, bawl, bees, bels, blae, blah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-e-h-l-s-w" | |
+1 letter: wheelbases. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 68 65 65 6C 62 61 73 65 |
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