brake band

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   a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation

   Broaderband

   Part ofbrake system

Questions about brake band

What does brake band mean?

brake band means "a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation".

Is brake band a common word?

brake band is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.