Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gearing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Gear \Gear\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Geared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gearing}.]
1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

2. (Mach.) To provide with gearing.

{Double geared}, driven through twofold compound gearing, to
increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Gearing \Gear"ing\, n.
1. Harness.

2. (Mach.) 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
locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels
for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.

{Frictional gearing}. See under {Frictional}.

{Gearing chain}, an endless chain transmitted 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

gearing
n : 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"
[syn: {gears}, {geartrain}, {power train}, {train}]


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