noun
: a screw having two parts of slightly different pitch cut on the same barrel each working in a nut so that when the screw is turned the nuts have a very slow relative motion
noun
: a screw having two parts of slightly different pitch cut on the same barrel each working in a nut so that when the screw is turned the nuts have a very slow relative motion
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012