rocker arm

1. 1.

   a lever pivoted at the center; used especially to push a valve down in an internal-combustion engine

   Synonymsvalve rocker

   Broaderlever

Questions about rocker arm

What does rocker arm mean?

rocker arm means "a lever pivoted at the center; used especially to push a valve down in an internal-combustion engine".

What is another word for rocker arm?

Close synonyms include valve rocker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rocker arm a common word?

rocker arm 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.