Peritrochium

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-004230",
  "term": "Peritrochium",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "The wheel part of a wheel and axle, the classical simple machine in which a large wheel is fixed to a smaller axle so that a force at the rim turns the axle. The wheel and axle together were once called the axis in peritrochio and counted among the mechanical powers. A wheel of 30 centimeters radius on a 3 centimeter axle, for example, balances a load ten times the force at its rim in the ideal case.",
  "subject": "Mechanical engineering",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Peritrochiumrad",
    "es": "peritroquio",
    "fr": "péritrochium"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/peritrochium/"
}