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Gearing   /gˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
Gearing

noun
1.
Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.  Synonyms: gear, geartrain, power train, train.






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"Gearing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gearing.—An ingenious method of obtaining different speeds at will from a single ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 822 - Volume XXXII, Number 822. Issue Date October 3, 1891 • Various

... my horizontal box wheel, the arrangement of the gearing and mill hopper, X, and crushers, W V, pinions, Y S, on shaft, all combined ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various

... morality of their methods. Come off the roof and get back to this most interesting affair of the Antinous. I presume one of Dawson's men was working, unknown to his fellows, with the care and maintenance party, and another, equally unknown, with the engineers who were busy upon the gearing of the turbines. Many of the regular ship's officers and men would also have been on board. Had our remarkable friend his agents among them too? Everything is possible with Dawson; I should not be surprised to hear that he had police officers ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone

... by the stream striking against the inclined floats. The shaft of the wheel passed up through the floor and the lower stone, and was fixed to the upper one, which turned round with it without any gearing. The flour made is dark and full of impurities, as no care is taken to ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt

... due place, and to these labours I will also allow full two houres, that is, from foure of the clocke till sixe, then hee shall come in to breakfast, and to that I allow him halfe an houre; and then another halfe houre to the gearing and yoaking of his cattell, so that at seven of the clocke hee may set forward to his labour, and then he shall plow from seven of the clock in the morning, till betwixt two and three in the afternoone, then he shall unyoke, and ...
— Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 • Lyman Carrier



Words linked to "Gearing" :   epicyclic train, wheelwork, train, reduction gear, engine, epicyclic gear train



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