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шпонка — meaning in English

shponka

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English meaning

  • cotter noun A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
  • key noun A shaped piece of metal used to open or lock a particular lock.

Senses

шпонка is used for these senses in English:

  • cotter (mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
  • spline (mechanics) A ridge or tooth on a drive shaft that meshes with a corresponding groove in a mating piece and transfers torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between the pieces; either the ridge or the groove, as part of a set of both (splines); the whole set of ridges and grooves.
  • spline A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together.

cotter — full definition

  1. noun A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
  2. noun A cotter pin.

key — full definition

  1. noun A shaped piece of metal used to open or lock a particular lock.
  2. noun The single most important factor or step needed to achieve something.
  3. noun One of the buttons pressed to type on a keyboard or play a musical instrument.
  4. noun A short guide listing what the symbols, colours, or abbreviations on a map, chart, or test mean.
  5. noun In music, the set of related notes a piece is built around, giving it its overall tonal centre.

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