A slot cut in a part of a machine or an electrical connector, to ensure correct orientation with another part which is fitted with a key.
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Example sentencesExamples
A diagram of the keys and keyways is available to identify the match to your padlock.
The integral lock is present, its keyway sitting atop the current style cylinder latch.
Stuck because someone glued a matchstick into the keyway with epoxy resin?
You just put the key into the keyway, turn it and the gun cannot be fired.
Dowels capture the gears, while keyways align with holes in the spacer.
These wheels were purchased preassembled, with keyways already cut into the hubs.
We now offer stepped bore rigid couplings with standard keyways in each bore.
Using a key inserted three quarters the way into the keyway usually works best in turning out the cylinder.
They rebuild engines and transmissions, work on air conditioning units, repair hydraulics, turn crankshafts, cut keyways, fabricate metal truck boxes, and even extend truck frames.
Rhymes
freeway, leeway, seaway
Definition of keyway in US English:
keyway
nounˈkēwā
1A slot cut in a part of a machine or an electrical connector, to ensure correct orientation with another part which is fitted with a key.
键槽
Example sentencesExamples
A diagram of the keys and keyways is available to identify the match to your padlock.
Using a key inserted three quarters the way into the keyway usually works best in turning out the cylinder.
Dowels capture the gears, while keyways align with holes in the spacer.
The integral lock is present, its keyway sitting atop the current style cylinder latch.
They rebuild engines and transmissions, work on air conditioning units, repair hydraulics, turn crankshafts, cut keyways, fabricate metal truck boxes, and even extend truck frames.
Stuck because someone glued a matchstick into the keyway with epoxy resin?
You just put the key into the keyway, turn it and the gun cannot be fired.
These wheels were purchased preassembled, with keyways already cut into the hubs.
We now offer stepped bore rigid couplings with standard keyways in each bore.