FLYWHEEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flywheel mean? 

• FLYWHEEL (noun)
  The noun FLYWHEEL has 1 sense:

1. regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine

  Familiarity information: FLYWHEEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLYWHEEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("flywheel" is a kind of...):

governor; regulator (a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flywheel"):

fluid flywheel (a kind of fluid coupling in which the flywheel is the driving rotor)