centrifugal tachometer

centrifugal tachometer

[‚sen′trif·i·gəl tə′käm·əd·ər]

(mechanical engineering)

An instrument which measures the instantaneous angular speed of a shaft by measuring the centrifugal force on a mass rotating with it.

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