wheel · tool
A round piece that moves around a center to carry a thing.
Examples
- The London Eye rotates once every 30 minutes, carrying 32 capsules around its central hub. engineering
- A potter shapes wet clay on a kick-wheel spinning at 60 revolutions per minute in Jingdezhen, China. craft
- The O-ring seal in the Space Shuttle Challenger's solid rocket booster failed at 73 seconds into flight. disaster
Emergence
through: The round piece rotates around its center, producing motion that transports a thing in contact and under control.
- rotating transport
- controlled circular motion
- centered rotation with load
Chain to foundations
as tree
- wheelL15
- pieceL3
- motionL2
- centerL3
- carryingL5
- roundL14
- boundaryL2 (shown above)
- centerL3 (shown above)
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- directionL13
- lineL12
- pointsL2 (shown above)
- goL3
- point of no returnL11
- spaceL0 (shown above)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (3)
Relations
| is-a | device.tool | is-a |
| enables | travel.movement | enables |