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fly⋅wheel

[flahy-hweel, -weel]
–noun Machinery.
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.

Origin:
1775–85; fly 1 + wheel
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fly·wheel   (flī'hwēl', -wēl')   
n.  
  1. A heavy-rimmed rotating wheel used to minimize variations in angular velocity and revolutions per minute, as in a machine subject to fluctuation in drive and load.

  2. An analogous device, especially one used to regulate the speed of clockwork.

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