Shaft

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In mechanical engineering, a shaft is a rotating machine element, usually circular in cross section, which is used to transmit power from one part to another, or from a machine which produces power to a machine which absorbs power.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Shaft (mechanical engineering)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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