crankshaft

English

Alternative forms

crank shaft

Etymology

From crank +‎ shaft.

Noun

crankshaft (plural crankshafts)

A rotating shaft that drives (or is driven by) a crank.

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

crankwalk

Translations

rotating shaft that drives a crank

Afrikaans: krukas
Arabic: عَمُود الْمِرْفَق m (ʕamūd al-mirfaq)
Armenian: ծնկաձև լիսեռ (cnkajew liseṙ)
Bulgarian: колянов вал m (koljanov val)
Catalan: cigonyal m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 曲軸／曲轴 (zh) (qūzhóu)
Czech: kliková hřídel f
Danish: krumtapaksel c
Dutch: krukas (nl) f
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: kampiakseli (fi)
French: vilebrequin (fr)
Galician: cigüeñal m
German: Kurbelwelle (de) f
Greek: στροφαλοφόρος άξονας (el) m (strofalofóros áxonas)
Hebrew: גַּל אַרְכֻּבָּה m (gal arkuba)
Hungarian: főtengely (hu), forgattyústengely
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: иінді білік (iındı bılık)
Lithuanian: alkūninis velenas m
Macedonian: коле́несто вра́тило n (kolénesto vrátilo)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: veivaksel (no) m

Nynorsk: veivaksel m, veivaksling m
Polish: wał korbowy m
Portuguese: virabrequim (pt) m, cambota (pt) f (of a vehicle)
Romanian: arbore cotit m, vilbrochen (ro) n
Russian: коле́нчатый вал (ru) m (kolénčatyj val), коленва́л (ru) m (kolenvál)
Serbo-Croatian: koljeničasta osovina f
Spanish: cigüeñal (es)
Swedish: vevaxel c
Tagalog: sikaran, tandos-sikaran
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: crancsiafft f

Verb

crankshaft (third-person singular simple present crankshafts, present participle crankshafting, simple past and past participle crankshafted)

(of a straight bolt or rod) To deform in such a manner that part of the rod or bolt is displaced sideways, offset from the longitudinal axis of the part, but remains parallel with the part's main longitudinal axis, with the final shape somewhat resembling a crankshaft.
- 2010 February 9, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “1.12.3.3 Landing gear examination”, in Report on the accident to Boeing 777-236ER, G-YMMM, at London Heathrow Airport on 17 January 2008‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 June 2022, page 44:
  The attachment of the inboard end of the gear beam was damaged but remained intact; the drag strut fuse pin had 'crankshafted' in a direction indicating that a load had been applied in tension but this had also remained intact.