DRIVING WHEEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does driving wheel mean? 

• DRIVING WHEEL (noun)
  The noun DRIVING WHEEL has 1 sense:

1. a wheel that drives a motor vehicle (transforms torque into a tractive force)

  Familiarity information: DRIVING WHEEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIVING WHEEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wheel that drives a motor vehicle (transforms torque into a tractive force)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("driving wheel" is a kind of...):

wheel (a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines))

Holonyms ("driving wheel" is a part of...):

drive line; drive line system (mechanism that transmits power from the engine to the driving wheels of a motor vehicle)