leaf spring

See also: leaf-spring

English

A semi-elliptical leaf spring underneath an axle in a car

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

leaf spring (plural leaf springs)

1. A spring in the form of a curved length(s) of steel, used in the suspension of wheeled vehicles

   Synonyms: carriage spring (dated), cart spring (dated), laminated spring (dated), semi-elliptical spring

   Hypernyms: spring < component, part

   Coordinate term: coil spring

Derived terms

• elliptic leaf spring > elliptic spring
• full elliptic leaf spring
• helper leaf spring
• leaf springing
• leaf-sprung
• longitudinal leaf spring
• multileaf spring
• parabolic leaf spring
• quarter-elliptic leaf spring
• semi-elliptic leaf spring
• single leaf spring
• tapered leaf spring
• taper leaf spring
• transverse leaf spring

Translations

leaf spring

• Afrikaans: bladveer
• Armenian: զսպան (hy) (zspan)
• Bulgarian: листов амортисьор m (listov amortisjor)
• Catalan: suspensió de ballesta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 板簧 (zh) (bǎnhuáng)

• Dutch: bladveer f
• Finnish: lehtijousi (fi)
• French: ressort à lames m
• German: Blattfeder (de) f
• Ingrian: lesorit
• Italian: balestra (it) f
• Kazakh: рессора (ressora)
• Latvian: slokšņu atspere f, atsperlāgs m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bladfjær m or f

  Nynorsk: bladfjør m or f

• Polish: resor m
• Portuguese: suspensão de lâminas f
• Russian: рессора (ru) f (ressora)
• Serbo-Croatian: lisnata opruga f, lamelna opruga f
• Slovene: listnata vzmet f
• Spanish: suspensión de ballesta f, resorte tipo ballesta m
• Tajik: рессора (ressora)
• Thai: แหนบ (th) (nɛ̀ɛp)
• Turkish: yaprak yay
• Ukrainian: ресора f (resora)
• Vietnamese: nhíp (vi)

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