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flywheel

fly·wheel [ fl wl, fl hwl ] (plural fly·wheels)

noun

Definition:

heavy wheel smoothing machine's operation: a heavy wheel or disk that helps because of its inertia to maintain a constant speed of rotation in a machine or to store energy

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