pitch surface
- (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane), a cylinder (pitch cylinder), or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
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Origin of pitch surface
First recorded in 1885–90
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The pitch-surface of a wheel lies intermediate between the points of the teeth and the bottoms of the hollows between them.