Flywheel vs. Governor

Flywheelnoun

(mechanical engineering) A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate, or as a form of energy storage.

Flywheelnoun

A heavy wheel or disk which stores kinetic energy by rotating on a shaft, and by its momentum smoothes the operation of a reciprocating engine by reducing fluctuations of speed. It is used in certain types of machinery, such as automobiles.

Flywheelnoun

regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smoothes the operation of a reciprocating engine

Flywheel

A flywheel is a mechanical device specifically designed to use the conservation of angular momentum so as to efficiently store rotational energy; a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the square of its rotational speed. In particular, if we assume the flywheel's moment of inertia to be constant (i.e., a flywheel with fixed mass and second moment of area revolving about some fixed axis) then the stored (rotational) energy is directly associated with the square of its rotational speed.

Governornoun

(politics) The chief executive officer of a province or provincial-level division of a country.

Governornoun

A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.

Governornoun

A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.

Governornoun

(informal) father.

Governornoun

(informal) Boss, employer.

Governornoun

(grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.

Governornoun

(dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

Governornoun

(nautical) A pilot; a steersman.

Governornoun

One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.

Governornoun

One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

Governornoun

A pilot; a steersman.

Governornoun

A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.

Governornoun

the head of a state government

Governornoun

a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)

Governornoun

an official appointed to govern a town or region.

Governornoun

the elected executive head of a state of the US.

Governornoun

the representative of the British Crown in a colony or in a Commonwealth state that regards the monarch as head of state.

Governornoun

the head of a public institution

Governornoun

a member of a governing body.

Governornoun

the person in authority; one's employer.

Governornoun

a device automatically regulating the supply of fuel, steam, or water to a machine, ensuring uniform motion or limiting speed.

Governor

A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, governor may be the title of a politician who governs a constituent state and may be either appointed or elected.