Wheel (disambiguation)
Appearance
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A wheel is a circular device that is capable of rotating on an axle.
Wheel may also refer to:
Machinery
[edit]- Ferris wheel
- Breaking wheel, a medieval execution device
- English wheel, a metalworking tool used to curve sheet metal
- Hamster wheel, an exercise toy used by pet rodents
- Water wheel, a wheel for converting the energy of flowing or falling water
- Steering wheel, for steering land vehicles
- Ship's wheel, for steering water vessels
- Potter's wheel, for shaping ceramics
- Rim (wheel), the periphery or outside edge of a wheel
- Bicycle
- Alloy wheel, a type of automobile wheel
- Artillery wheel, a type of wheel most recently used on American cars
- Steel wheel
- Train wheel
- Wagon wheel
- Wheel and axle, a simple machine that translates torque or force applied at one radius to a different force or torque at a different radius
- Wire wheel
Science and technology
[edit]- Wheel (algebra), an algebra in which division by zero is possible
- Wheel (computing), in computing, a user group that provides additional special system privileges
- Prayer wheel (slide rule), a circular slide rule
- Wheel (Python), a "setuptools" package format extension replacing "egg" package format
- Wheel graph, a mathematical concept
Geography
[edit]- Wheel, Kentucky, U.S.
- Wheel, Tennessee, U.S.
Religion
[edit]- Wheel of Law or Wheel of Dharma, a symbol that has represented dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment
- In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the following classes of celestial beings:
- Prayer wheel, a cylindrical wheel on a spindle
Film and television
[edit]- La Roue (The Wheel), a 1923 French film
- The Wheel (1925 film)
- The Wheel (game show), a British television game show created and hosted by Michael McIntyre
- The Wheel (American game show)
- "The Wheel", a wheel in the game show Wheel of Fortune
- "The Wheel" (Law & Order), a 2002 episode of Law & Order
- "The Wheel" (Mad Men), an episode of Mad Men
- The Wheel, a 1983 production by the Theatre New Brunswick
- Das Rad (The Wheel), a 2001 animated short
- The Wheel (2021 film)
Music
[edit]- "The Wheel", the nickname of guitarist Radomir Mihailović
- Wheel (album), a 2013 album by Laura Stevenson
- The Wheel (band), Australian country music band.
- The Wheel (Asleep at the Wheel album), a 1977 album by Asleep at the Wheel
- The Wheel (Rosanne Cash album), a 1993 album by Rosanne Cash
- The Wheel, 2003 album by David Olney
Songs
[edit]- "The Wheel", a song by Bill Black's Combo, 1960
- "The Wheel", a song by The Breakaways Australia, 1964
- "The Wheel", a song by Bert Jansch from Lucky Thirteen (Bert Jansch album), 1966
- "The Wheel", a song and single by Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, and Bill Kreutzmann from the 1972 album Garcia
- "The Wheel", a song and single by Spear Of Destiny from Grapes of Wrath (album), 1983
- "The Wheel", a song by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians from Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, 1988
- "The Wheel", a song by Rosanne Cash from album of the same name, 1993
- "The Wheel" (song), a song by PJ Harvey, 2016
- "The Wheel", a song by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the closing track to their 2017 album Gumboot Soup
Other
[edit]- Agricultural Wheel, an alliance of farmers in Arkansas
- The Wheel, a short story by John Wyndham, published in the collection Jizzle
- An ace-to-five straight, a type of poker hand
- The Wheel (charity), a charity support association in Ireland
- Wheel (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent
- Wheel (route), a pattern run by a receiver or running back in American football
People with the surname
[edit]- Geoff Wheel (born 1951), Welsh rugby union player
- Lesley Wheel (1929–2004), American architectural lighting designer