epicyclic train

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noun Machinery.

a train of gears or pulleys in which one or more of the axes revolve about a central axis.

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Origin of epicyclic train

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby epicyclic train

epicurean, Epicureanism, Epicurus, epicuticle, epicycle, epicyclic train, epicycloid, epicycloidal gear, epicycloidal wheel, epicystitis, epicystotomy

How to use epicyclic train in a sentence

From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.
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The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.
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Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
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The U.S. only plans to train roughly 3,000 Iraqi troops in the first year.
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“We met the smuggler in the train station; he came to speak with us about the services he provided,” Yazbek says.
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It was only the engine drawing the train of cars up to the station to take the passengers away.
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He went careering forward to his point, overturning and wounding; but as he speeded on, he left a train of enemies behind.
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The fire along the three miles front is like the rumble of an express train running over fog signals.
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We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.
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There were only seventeen stations on the whole line, over which the first passenger train ran on Sept. 17.
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British Dictionary definitions for epicyclic train

epicyclic train

noun

a cluster of gears consisting of a central gearwheel with external teeth (the sun), a coaxial gearwheel of greater diameter with internal teeth (the annulus), and one or more planetary gears engaging with both of them to provide a large gear ratio in a compact space

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