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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
... A vertical duct for building...
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 407 Americanized form of German Schaft...
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A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000
... In palaeography, a shaft is a single upright stroke, such as the stem in k or t...
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A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...shaft A rotating machine component, usually cylindrical or conical and supported by bearings, which carries gear wheels, pulleys, etc. and is used to transmit power. For the same volume of material, a hollow shaft has a higher torque-carrying capacity than a solid shaft of the same length. See also crankshaft ; half shaft ; spindle...
shaft ([Co]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [Co] 1 A straight‐sided narrow deep hole cut into the ground. 2 A slender...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... 1. Body, fust, or trunk of a colonnette or column extending from the top of the base to the bottom of the capital , in the Classical Orders diminishing in size as it rises ( see diminution , entasis ). 2. Slim cylindrical tall element (often made of Purbeck marble or some other material to contrast with the lighter stone of the pier), one of several clustered around a pier and tied to it by shaft-rings ( annulets , bands of a shaft, band-rings, bracelets , or corbel -rings in Gothic work). 3. Colonnette set at an angle of a building...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
... The body of a column or pilaster between the capital and the base . In medieval architecture, the small, slender columns attached (in a cluster) to a pillar , pier , door jamb , or window...
protected shaft Quick reference
A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...shaft A fire-resistant vertical shaft...
output shaft Quick reference
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...output shaft The driving shaft of an engine from which power is...
air shaft Quick reference
A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...shaft A vertical shaft within a building or tunnel that is used for...
propeller shaft Quick reference
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...propeller shaft ( Cardan shaft , prop shaft ) 1. In the power train of a motor vehicle, the shaft that transmits power from the gearbox to driven rear wheels. 2. See propeller...
drive shaft Quick reference
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...drive shaft ( Cardan shaft , tailshaft ) The shaft through which power and torque are transmitted from a motor or engine to a machine or device or driving wheels. See also drive train...
shaft alignment Quick reference
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...shaft alignment The positioning of the rotational axes of two or more shafts such that they are...
flexible shaft Quick reference
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...flexible shaft A drive shaft that is capable of transmitting rotary motion around corners. See also Bowden cable...
half shaft Quick reference
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...half shaft A final drive shaft in a motor vehicle which is divided into two halves, one on either side of the differential...
lay shaft Quick reference
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...lay shaft ( layshaft ) A secondary or intermediate shaft in a gearbox , running parallel to the main shaft and carrying the paired gear wheel s that effect the changes in gear ratio . See also countershaft...
lift shaft Quick reference
A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...shaft ( lift well , US hoistway ) A vertical shaft within a building that houses a lift . Usually incorporates a lift machine room at the top of the lift shaft and a lift pit at the...
knotted shaft Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
...shaft Romanesque column-shaft carved to look as though tied in a knot. Good C12 or C13 examples survive in Würzburg Cathedral, Germany, and similar shafts can be found at the Broletto , Como, Italy ( c. 1215). Ck ( 1996 ) ; J.Curl ( 2011 )...
shaft balancing Quick reference
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...shaft balancing The process of redistributing the mass of a rotating body, or adding corrective masses to it, to reduce to zero the product of inertia with respect to the shaft axis and an axis in the plane of symmetry of the shaft. The shaft is then statically and dynamically balanced and vibrations due to centrifugal effects are...
chimney shaft Quick reference
A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...shaft A free-standing industrial chimney that usually only contains one...
