- Wobble extension bar
- A special extension with a unique male end that enables the user to drive the socket up to 15° from vertical
- Wobble plate-swash plate
- Type of compressor designed to compress gas, with piston motion parallel to crankshaft. Often used in automobile air conditioning systems.
- Woodie
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- A shooting brake.
- A wood-bodied vehicle, especially Station wagons of the '30s and 40s.
- Woodill
- A vehicle brand of which the 1952-58 Wildfire models are milestone cars.
- Woodruff key
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A half-moon shaped piece of metal used to secure something to a shaft which has a notch cut in the shaft to accommodate the key.
Woodruff key
- Wood screw
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Wood screw
- A tapered shaft fastener with wide spiral threads like a sheet metal screw and a variety of head shapes. Used to secure wood or plastic. Wood screws have a smooth shank that allows the screw to pull the two pieces of wood together for a tight joint. Wood screws also taper along the threaded portion optimizing the screws holding power in wood.
- A metal screw having a driver head, a gimlet point, and a sharp- crested, coarse pitch thread, for insertion in wood or resilient materials. It produces its own mating thread.
- Work
- Production of an effect by exertion of a force. Energy is needed to do work and work is
measured in Joules.
Also see
- World Trade Organization
- (WTO) Created by the Uruguay Round and successor to the GATT, this new organization began operations on January 1, 1995.
- Worm
- A short, rotating shaft on which a helical groove has been cut, as in a gear arrangement in which such
a shaft meshes with a toothed wheel.
Also see
- Worm-and-nut steering
- A steering system in which rotation of the worm causes a nut, which encloses it, to move up or down, thus turning the rocker shaft
- Worm and roller
- A type of Steering gear using a Worm gear on the Steering shaft. A Roller on one end of the Cross shaft engages the worm.
- Worm and roller gearbox
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A gearing system used with parallelogram steering linkage. Threads on the worm gear engage the threads of the roller. Both ends of the worm gear are supported by ball bearings to reduce friction. When the steering wheel is turned, the roller moves along the worm gear, swiveling the Pitman shaft (arm).
Worm and roller gearbox
- Worm and sector
- A type of Steering gear using a Worm gear engaging a sector (a portion of a gear) on the Cross shaft.
- Worm-and-sector steering
- A type of steering system in which rotation of the worm moves a V-shaped section of a toothed wheel at the top of the rocker shaft
- Worm and taper pin
- A type of Steering gear using a Worm gear on the Steering shaft. The end of the Cross shaft engages the worm via a taper pin.
- Worm gear
- A coarse, spiral shaped gear cut on a shaft. It is used to engage with and drive another gear or portion of a gear. As used in the steering Gearbox, it often engages the Cross shaft via a Roller or by a tapered pin.
- Worry
- To bend something like a wire or a bar back and forth with the intention of breaking it apart.
- WOT
- Acronym for Wide open throttle