flywheel
noun
a heavy disk or wheel rotating on a shaft so that its momentum gives almost uniform rotational speed to the shaft and to all connected machinery.
flywheels
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pluralof flywheel.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Images on social media purport to show one of the chairlift's flywheels off it's spoke.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025
So when you start connecting the dots, there are really positive elements to those flywheels that are kind of unseen, but I can give you dozens of examples of those throughout Amazon.
From The Verge ● Oct. 12, 2021
He wanted to see if his next flywheels could power a project with higher ideals.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019
Excess solar energy will be stored via flywheels housed in a communal building.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 14, 2017
It grew louder, angrier, and suggested the high-velocity spin of flywheels or electric turbines turning at impossible speed.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
