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noun Machinery.

a gear having teeth cut on an inner cylindrical surface.

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Also called annular gear, ring gear.

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And so, he says he left prison without proper ID, just his release papers and the “dress-out gear” he was given by the state.
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Turn the heat down to 325°F and continue cooking until internal temperature reads 140°F on a thermometer.
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The result was a system not open to alternatives from the outside and with no internal incentives for innovation.
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A secular police state well practiced in suppressing internal challenges.
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Ground glass is put in food to cause internal bleeding, and nicotine concentrated by boiling can cause a heart attack.
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Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
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The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
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A piece of iron sticking out from the cross-head carried the plug-rod for working the gear-handles.
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At that time one of his high-pressure puffer-engines, with a cylindrical boiler and internal tube, was working in Staffordshire.
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The boilers were Trevithick's cylindrical with internal tube, wholly of wrought iron.
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