GEARING
Dictionary entry overview: What does gearing mean?
• GEARING (noun)
The noun GEARING has 1 sense:
1. wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
Familiarity information: GEARING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GEARING (noun)
Meaning:
Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
gearing; geartrain; power train; gear; train
Context example:
the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain
Hypernyms ("gearing" is a kind of...):
wheelwork (mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gearing"):
epicyclic gear train; epicyclic train (a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis)
reduction gear (gearing that reduces an input speed to a slower output speed)
Holonyms ("gearing" is a part of...):
engine (motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work)
