screw thread

See also: screwthread

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

screw thread (plural screw threads)

1. (engineering) A helical ridge formed around a cylinder, or a helical groove formed around the inner wall of a bore, used mostly on fasteners and their connection points.

   An internal screw thread is cut with a "tap", while external screw threads are cut with a "die".

Translations

helical ridge or groove

• Bulgarian: резба́ f (rezbá)
• Catalan: solc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 牙 (gâ)

  Mandarin: 螺紋 / 螺纹 (zh) (luówén), 螺牙 (luóyá)

• Czech: závit (cs) m
• Dutch: schroefdraad (nl) m, draad (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝraŭbkanelo
• Finnish: kierre (fi)
• French: filetage (fr) m, filet (fr) m
• Galician: rosca (gl) f
• German: Gewinde (de) n, Gewindegang m
• Greek: σπείρωμα (el) n (speíroma), πάσο (el) n (páso)
• Hungarian: menet (hu), csavarmenet (hu)
• Indonesian: drat (id)
• Italian: filetto (it) m
• Macedonian: на́вој m (návoj)
• Māori: ngauwiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenge m or n

  Nynorsk: gjenge n

• Persian: رزوه (fa) (rezve)
• Polish: gwint (pl) m
• Portuguese: rosca (pt) f
• Romanian: filet (ro) n
• Russian: резьба́ (ru) f (rezʹbá), наре́зка (ru) f (narézka)
• Spanish: rosca (es) f, filete (es) m
• Swedish: gänga (sv) c
• Tagalog: roskas
• Ukrainian: різьба́ (uk) f (rizʹbá)

See also

• die, tap