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Found 1 definition: gearing.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun gearing has 1 senses

gearing(n = noun.artifact) gear, geartrain, power train, train - wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain"
is a kind of wheelwork
is a part of engine
has particulars: epicyclic gear train, epicyclic train, reduction gear

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

gearing, n.

1. Harness. [1913 Webster]

2. The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of a locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. [1913 Webster]

Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitting motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

gearing, n.
1 a set or arrangement of gears in a machine.
2 Brit. Commerce a the allocation of part of a dividend to preferred recipients. b the amount of this part.

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