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GEARTRAIN

Dictionary entry overview: What does geartrain mean?

• GEARTRAIN (noun)
The noun GEARTRAIN 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: GEARTRAIN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GEARTRAIN (noun)

Sense 1

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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 ("geartrain" 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 "geartrain"):

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 ("geartrain" is a part of...):

engine (motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work)

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