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Connecting rod   /kənˈɛktɪŋ rɑd/   Listen
Connecting rod

noun
1.
A rod that transmits motion (especially one that connects a rotating wheel to a reciprocating shaft).





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"Connecting rod" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I noticed that when you were speaking about the distance of the moon you always said it was about so far away. Why didn't you tell us the exact distance? I'm not a scientific man by any means, but if any one were to ask me the length of a connecting rod on one of my machines I should say '25 inches,' not 'about 25 inches,' for that would not do for a ...
— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks
... out their tools and started to repair the two pumps. It was found that the Cardite motor was not badly damaged, one of the negative electrical plates merely having been smashed by a piece of the broken connecting rod of the air pump. It was only a short time before the motor ...
— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood
... pivot of which is at the bottom, and from the upper end the valve rod transfers the motion to the valve without reversing the motion, as is done sometimes in the slide valve to overcome the effects of the angularity of the connecting rod. The action of the rocker arm, therefore, so far as the main valve in the Buckeye is concerned, is no different than that which would occur if no rocker arm intervened. The motion of the cut off eccentric, through its ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 • Various


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