Plural of crankpin; multiple pins or shafts on crank mechanisms in engines and machinery.
Simple plural form of 'crankpin,' formed by adding the standard English '-s' suffix to indicate more than one.
Modern V-8 engines have multiple crankpins arranged in a specific choreography that allows eight cylinders to fire in perfect sequence—any mistake in their alignment and the whole engine shakes apart!
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