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gearing

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gear=ing

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun gearing has 1 sense

gearing(n = noun.artifact) gear, geartrain, power train, train - wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain"

is a part of engine

has particulars: epicyclic gear train, epicyclic train, reduction gear

is a kind of wheelwork

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CIDE DICTIONARY

gearing, n.

Harness. [1913 Webster]
The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of a locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. [1913 Webster]

Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitting motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

gearing, n.
1 a set or arrangement of gears in a machine.
2 Brit. Commerce a the allocation of part of a dividend to preferred recipients. b the amount of this part.

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