fan belt

1. 1.

   a belt driven by the crankshaft that drives a fan that pulls air through the radiator

   Broaderbelt

   Part ofcooling system

Questions about fan belt

What does fan belt mean?

fan belt means "a belt driven by the crankshaft that drives a fan that pulls air through the radiator".

Is fan belt a common word?

fan belt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.