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Definition of Connecting rod
1. Noun. A rod that transmits motion (especially one that connects a rotating wheel to a reciprocating shaft).
Definition of Connecting rod
1. Noun. Any rod, in an engine, that transmits power or motion, especially one that connects a reciprocating shaft to a rotating wheel, in reciprocating engines connects piston to crankshaft ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Connecting Rod
Literary usage of Connecting rod
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"10—Piston pin is stationary — note the bashing is in upper end of connecting rod.
The stationary piston-pin, fig. 10, has a "bronze bushing in the end of ..."
2. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1887)
"... any point in time connecting rod for any part of the stroke. ... and B'A' =
BA, the connecting rod ; draw ..."
3. The Elements of Machine Design by William Cawthorne Unwin (1893)
"forked rod is therefore mechanically bad, and if it must be adopted it should at
least have extra strength. CONNECTING-ROD ENDS ..."
4. A Manual of Marine Engineering: Comprising the Designing, Construction, and by Albert Edward Seaton (1890)
"For mercantile engines, Diameter of connecting-rod at middle = . / vx^ . /~R The
following empirical formula will be found a very useful one, ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"the crank, with its connecting-rod, etc., Is enclosed in a steam- tight head,
s'o arranged as to form an extension from one end of the cylinder in which the ..."
6. The Elements of Machine Design by William Cawthorne Unwin (1891)
"connecting rod are at right angles and is greatest and equal to/ when the crank
is at the dead point. 44. Curve of force due to inertia of reciprocating ..."
7. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference Book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1902)
"The cap is to be proportioned as a beam loaded with the maximum pull of the
connecting-rod, and supported at both ends. The calculation should be made for ..."
8. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1869)
"the crank, with its connecting-rod, etc., is enclosed in a steam- tight head, so
arranged as to form an extension from one end of the cylinder in which the ..."
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