Shaft in a sentence

In most screws, applying torque to the shaft can cause it to turn, moving the shaft linearly to do work against a load, but no amount of axial load force against the shaft will cause it to turn backwards.

Tapered shaft lock A tapered lock is a form of keyless shaft locking device citation that does not require any material to be removed from the shaft.

The shaft was fitted into the socket of the fore shaft and a bone ring was then placed over the joint to hold the two pieces together, as well as, protecting the wooden shaft from splitting.

An Israeli commander, Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfuss, said in a video message recorded in Khan Younis that his forces were fighting house to house and “shaft to shaft”, a reference to tunnel shafts.

At the Munich Stadium, where they had gone to watch a game, the German kids mistook him for the African-American actor, Richard Roundtree, popularly known as Shaft He truly looked very much like Shaft in the late seventies.

However, with the finer shaft, the longer shaft might be easier to bend if too much pressure is used.

Hydrodynamic measurements of underground tests are extremely complicated and typically involve measuring multiple times in real-time the change in the length of a specialized co-axial cable placed near the explosion in the test shaft or a satellite shaft.

The combination shaft of steel and graphite took 40 grams out of the middle of the putter and redistributed the mass to the grip and head to better balance the head, shaft and grip system.

In a wooden vertical-shaft looms, the heddles are fixed in place in the shaft.

In particular, power is the product of a force on an object and the object's velocity, or the product of a torque on a shaft and the shaft's angular velocity.

Now these engines have the form of a bow, but on the under side of them a grooved wooden shaft projects; this shaft is so fitted to the bow that it is free to move, and rests upon a straight iron bed.

Only the eccentric shaft spins fast, while the rotors turn at exactly one-third of the shaft speed.

Points A and B on the rotor and E-shaft turn at different speeds—point B circles three times as often as point A does, so that one full orbit of the rotor equates to three turns of the E-shaft.

Rigid couplings are used when precise shaft alignment is required; shaft misalignment will affect the coupling's performance as well as its life.

The 'Drexel Shaft' Frustrated by unresponsive university administrators, students throughout Drexel's history have spoken of a "Drexel Shaft" to describe their interactions with the administration during their academic career at the school.

The mechanics of drag systems usually consist of any number of discs (drag washers) arranged in a stack on the spool shaft or in some cases, on the drive shaft.

The shaft turns 3 times for each rotation of the rotor around the lobe and once for each orbital revolution around the eccentric shaft.

The system involves a clutch shoe or shoes attached to the driven shaft, rotating inside a clutch bell attached to the output shaft.

The upper sub shaft held the razor stone head and attached to the lower sub shaft with a small braided twine loop.

Thrust bearings can be used for the shaft bearings, the rotor can use dummy pistons, it can be double flow- the steam enters in the middle of the shaft and exits at both ends, or a combination of any of these.