train gear

  • 61going train — Horol. the gear train for moving the hands of a timepiece or giving some other visual indication of the time. Cf. dial train, striking train. * * * …

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  • 62going train — noun : the gearing in a striking or chiming timepiece that drives the hands * * * Horol. the gear train for moving the hands of a timepiece or giving some other visual indication of the time. Cf. dial train, striking train …

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  • 63planetary gear train — noun an assembly of meshed gears consisting of a central (sun) gear, a coaxial internal gear wheel and one or more intermediate pinions supported on a revolving carrier …

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  • 64sun gear — sun′ gear n. mac (in an epicyclic train) the central gear around which the planet gears revolve …

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  • 65epicycloidal gear — n. a gear of an epicyclic train …

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  • 66single-gear — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ transitive verb : to gear directly (as by belting or a single pair or train of gear wheels) without the use of any additional speed reducing mechanism …

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  • 67valve gear — noun : any of numerous gears by which motion is given to the valves of an engine and especially a steam engine; specifically : such a gear for a steam engine by which the cutoff may be varied while the engine is running and the engine started,… …

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  • 68striking train — Horol. the gear train of the striking mechanism of a timepiece. Cf. going train. [1880 85] * * * …

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  • 69going train — go′ing train n. hor the gear train for moving the hands of a timepiece or giving some other visual indication of the time …

    From formal English to slang

  • 70striking train — Horol. the gear train of the striking mechanism of a timepiece. Cf. going train. [1880 85] …

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