synchronized shifting

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noun Automotive.

gear shifting in which the gears to be meshed are made to rotate at the same speed.

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They marched through the streets of downtown New York to the synchronized beats of the Continental drum corps that followed.
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Thus all about us is the moving and shifting spectacle of riches and poverty, side by side, inextricable.
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Only at moments was he aware of this—a kind of higher Self, detached from shifting moods, looked on calmly and took note.
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When the sailors are employed in shifting the sails, great care must be taken to avoid injury by the falling of any of the ropes.
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Then dawn flung itself impetuously across the hills, and the naked rim of the canyon took form in a shifting whirl of smoke.
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I eventually came to one of the largest, where by considerable shifting they managed to accommodate my car.
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