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washer
Sign in to savethin plate with a hole, normally used to distribute the load of a threaded fastener
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- joining technology
- Image
- ARFISA 15.jpg
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- Commons category
- Washers (hardware)
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- shape
- disk
- physically interacts with
- component
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Assorted washers: flat, split, star and insulating
A washer is a thin plate (typically disk-shaped, but sometimes square) with a hole (typically in the middle) that is normally used to distribute the load of a threaded fastener, such as a bolt or nut. Other uses are as a spacer, spring (Belleville washer, wave washer), wear pad, preload indicating device, locking device, and to reduce vibration (rubber washer).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “washer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.