piston

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Borrowed from French piston.

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: մխոց (mxocʻ) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Bulgarian: бутало (butalo) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Catalan: pistó — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Chinese Cantonese: 活塞 (wut6 sak1) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Chinese Mandarin: 活塞 (huósāi) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Chinese Mandarin: 鞲鞴 (gōubèi) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Czech: píst — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Danish: stempel — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Dutch: zuiger — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Esperanto: piŝto — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Finnish: mäntä — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• French: piston — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Galician: pistón — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Galician: émbolo — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Galician: sucho — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Georgian: დგუში (dguši) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• German: Kolben — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Greek: πιστόνι (pistóni) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Hawaiian: hao kuʻe — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Hawaiian: kuʻe — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Hebrew: בוכנה \ בֻּכְנָה (bukhná) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Hungarian: dugattyú — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Icelandic: stimpill — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Icelandic: bulla — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Indonesian: piston — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Indonesian: seher — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Indonesian: torak — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Italian: pistone — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Japanese: ピストン (pisuton) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Japanese: 活塞 (kassoku) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Japanese: 喞子 (shokushi) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Kazakh: піспек (pıspek) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Kazakh: поршень (porşen) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Khmer: ពីស្តុង (pii stong) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Korean: 피스톤 (piseuton) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Latin: embolus — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Latin: fundulus — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Latvian: virzulis — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Macedonian: клип (klip) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Malay: piston — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Malay: omboh — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Māori: kōkeke — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Mongolian: бүлүүр (bülüür) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Norwegian Bokmål: stempel — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stempel — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Polish: tłok — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Portuguese: pistão — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Romanian: piston — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Russian: по́ршень (póršenʹ) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Russian: плу́нжер (plúnžer) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Russian: золотни́к (zolotník) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Serbo-Croatian: klip — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Serbo-Croatian: stap — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Spanish: pistón — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Spanish: émbolo — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Swedish: kolv — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Tagalog: tublik — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Thai: ลูกสูบ (lûuk-sùup) — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Turkish: piston — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Vietnamese: pít tông — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Welsh: piston — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Welsh: ceuffon — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Welsh: pillffon — solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder
• Bulgarian: клапа (klapa) — valve of brass instruments
• Finnish: venttiili — valve of brass instruments
• Finnish: työntöventtiili — valve of brass instruments
• French: piston — valve of brass instruments
• German: Pumpventil — valve of brass instruments
• German: Perinetventil — valve of brass instruments
• Russian: писто́н (pistón) — valve of brass instruments
• Russian: кла́пан (klápan) — valve of brass instruments
• Arabic: مِدَكّ (midakk) — in firearms
• Belarusian: іглі́ца (ihlíca) — in firearms
• Belarusian: уда́рнік (udárnik) — in firearms
• Finnish: mäntä — in firearms
• German: Piston — in firearms
• German: Zündhütchenträger — in firearms
• Polish: odrzut — in firearms
• Russian: уда́рник (udárnik) — in firearms
• Ukrainian: уда́рник (udárnyk) — in firearms