Dog (engineering)
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dog-engineering-177-13857813
title:
Dog (engineering)
text:
In engineering, a dog is a tool or part of a tool, such as a pawl, that prevents or imparts movement through physical engagement. It may hold another object in place by blocking it, clamping it, or otherwise obstructing its movement. Or it may couple various parts together so that they move in unison – the primary example of this being a flexible drive to mate two shafts in order to transmit torque. Some devices use dog clutches to lock together two spinning components. In a manual transmission,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Tool in engineering
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_(engineering)
date created:
2007-03-24T17:47:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T17:08:32Z
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