cardan shaft

English

Alternative forms

• Cardan shaft

Etymology

Named after Girolamo Cardano.

Noun

cardan shaft (plural cardan shafts)

1. (mechanical engineering) A driveshaft with a universal joint at one or both ends.
   • 1963 January, “New in Japan: Tokaido Line trials”, in Modern Railways, page 44:

     Each axle of every 82ft-long car is powered by a 170kW traction motor with flexible cardan shaft drive.

Translations

driveshaft

• German: Kardanwelle f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kardangaksel m, drivaksel (no) m

• Russian: карда́нный вал (ru) m (kardánnyj val)

References

• “cardan shaft”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.