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RACK AND PINION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does rack and pinion mean?

• RACK AND PINION (noun)
The noun RACK AND PINION has 1 sense:

1. a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack; converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa)

Familiarity information: RACK AND PINION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RACK AND PINION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack; converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rack and pinion" 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)

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