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Handwheel
Handwheel meaning
Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a set screw.
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Example sentences (2)
Bench micrometers of the "super-mic" class entirely obviate this interuser variation by having the user dial the handwheel until a needle reads zero on a gauge, producing the same pressure on every reading.
This cylinder is fitted with an overfill prevention device (OPD) valve, as evidenced by the trilobular handwheel.