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fly·wheel  audio  (flhwl, -wl) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. A heavy-rimmed rotating wheel used to minimize variations in angular velocity and revolutions per minute, as in a machine subject to fluctuation in drive and load.
  2. An analogous device, especially one used to regulate the speed of clockwork.



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