Spindel
- A variant spelling of 'spindle', which refers to a rod or pin used for spinning, twisting, or winding fibers, or a similar structure in machinery. nounThe old spinning wheel had a wooden spindel for winding the yarn.In the machine shop, the spindel was crucial for the operation of the lathe.
- In computing, a 'spindel' can refer to a rotating axis of a machine, often used in the context of hard drives or other data storage devices. nounThe hard drive's spindel speed affects how quickly data can be read or written.Engineers worked on reducing the noise produced by the spindel in the new model of the computer.