sun gear

noun

Machinery.

(in an epicyclic train) the central gear around which the planet gears revolve.

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But such a process appeared to be incompatible with a ring system for displaying the planets because the outputs for Mercury and Venus prevented the moon-phase device from accessing the input from the sun gear system.