shock absorber

English

Noun

shock absorber (plural shock absorbers)

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Shock absorber

1. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device designed to smooth out or damp any sudden shock impulse and dissipate kinetic energy; usually consists of a combination of a spring and a dashpot.
   • 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:

     Hydraulic shock absorbers are used to damp out vertical and lateral oscillations.

Related terms

• shock absorption

Translations

device to absorb shocks

• Arabic: مُمْتَصّ صَدَمَات m (mumtaṣṣ ṣadamāt)
• Armenian: մեղմիչ (hy) (meġmičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: amortizator
• Belarusian: амартыза́тар m (amartyzátar)
• Bulgarian: амортиза́тор (bg) m (amortizátor), амортисьо́р m (amortisjór)
• Burmese: ရှော့ဘား (hrau.bha:)
• Catalan: amortidor
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 減震器／减震器 (zh) (jiǎnzhènqì), 避震器 (bìzhènqì), 阻尼器 (zh) (zǔníqì), 緩衝器／缓冲器 (zh) (huǎnchōngqì)

• Czech: tlumič m
• Danish: støddæmper c
• Dutch: schokdemper (nl) m, schokbreker (nl) m
• Esperanto: amortizilo, skusorbilo (eo)
• Estonian: amortisaator
• Faroese: stoytdoyvari m
• Finnish: iskunvaimennin (fi)
• French: amortisseur (fr) m
• Galician: amortecedor (gl) m
• Georgian: ამორტიზატორი (amorṭizaṭori)
• German: Stoßdämpfer (de) m
• Greek: αμορτισέρ (el) n (amortisér)
• Hindi: प्रघात अवशोषक m (praghāt avśoṣak), शॉक अब्ज़ॉर्बर m (śŏk abzŏrbar)
• Hungarian: tompító (hu), lengéscsillapító (hu)
• Icelandic: höggdeyfir (is) m
• Ido: amortisilo (io)
• Italian: ammortizzatore (it) m
• Japanese: ショックアブソーバー (shokku abusōbā), 緩衝器 (ja) (かんしょうき, kanshōki)
• Kazakh: амортизатор (amortizator)
• Korean: 완충기(緩衝器) (wanchunggi), 쇼크 업소버 (syokeu eopsobeo)
• Kyrgyz: амортизатор (ky) (amortizator)
• Latvian: amortizators m
• Lithuanian: amortizatorius m
• Macedonian: амортизе́р m (amortizér)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: støtdemper m, støytdemper m

  Nynorsk: støytdempar m

• Persian: کمک‌فنر (komak-fanar)
• Polish: amortyzator (pl) m
• Portuguese: amortecedor (pt) m
• Romanian: amortizor (ro) n
• Russian: амортиза́тор (ru) m (amortizátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: амортѝзе̄р m

  Roman: amortìzēr (sh) m

• Slovak: tlmič m
• Slovene: amortizer m
• Spanish: amortiguador m
• Swedish: stötdämpare (sv) c
• Tagalog: salubayo
• Tajik: амортизатор (amortizator)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: amortisör (tr)
• Ukrainian: амортиза́тор (uk) m (amortyzátor)
• Uzbek: amortizator (uz)
• Vietnamese: giảm xóc

Further reading

• shock absorber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia