gear train

noun

1. a set of automobile gears that transmit power; transmission.

2. a set of interconnected gears.

gear train

noun

1. engineering a system of gears that transmits power from one shaft to another

Example Sentences

She traces this passion to a formative moment in her childhood when she fixed her broken cassette player by fiddling with the gear train.

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Seeking a permanent place to store gear, train and gather, SMR members dedicated Saturdays over the past three years to pouring concrete and hanging drywall.

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They come to me with questions, and I show them how to do things, like how to attach wheels to a gear train.

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Despite these shortcomings, Price identified a gear train—a set of linked gears—that calculated the average position of the moon on any specific date by using its period relation of 254 sidereal rotations in 19 years.

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A gear train using the 63-tooth gear could be designed to match a bearing on one of the spokes of the main drive wheel.

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