wheel and axle

English

Noun

wheel and axle (plural wheels and axles)

1. A simple machine consisting of a wheel (or similar lever) that turns an axle around which a cord is wound; its mechanical advantage is the ratio of the diameters of the wheel and axle.

Translations

simple machine

• Bulgarian: чекрък (bg) m (čekrǎk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輪軸 / 轮轴 (zh) (lúnzhóu)

• Czech: kolo na hřídeli n
• Finnish: pyörä ja akseli
• Japanese: 輪軸 (ja) (rinjiku)
• Polish: kołowrót (pl) m
• Spanish: torno (es) m