EPICYCLIC GEAR

 Dictionary entry overview: What does epicyclic gear mean? 

• EPICYCLIC GEAR (noun)
  The noun EPICYCLIC GEAR has 1 sense:

1. an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train

  Familiarity information: EPICYCLIC GEAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPICYCLIC GEAR (noun)

Meaning:

An outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

epicyclic gear; planet gear; planet wheel; planetary gear

Hypernyms ("epicyclic gear" is a kind of...):

cogwheel; gear; gear wheel; geared wheel (a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion)

Holonyms ("epicyclic gear" is a part of...):

epicyclic gear train; epicyclic train (a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis)