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pinion — A small, tapered gear which meshes with a larger gear or rack. It is found in two primary places in an automobile: the differential pinion and the rack and pinion steering. See crown wheel and pinion drive pinion inertia pinion planet pinion rack … Dictionary of automotive terms
planet differential — noun or planet gear : an epicyclic train that has two contiguous and parallel main wheels usually of equal diameter but of unequal number of teeth meshing with a single pinion … Useful english dictionary
Gear — For the gear like device used to drive a roller chain, see Sprocket. This article is about mechanical gears. For other uses, see Gear (disambiguation). Two meshing gears transmitting rotational motion. Note that the smaller gear is rotating… … Wikipedia
Differential (mechanical device) — For other uses, see Differential. A cutaway view of an automotive final drive unit which contains the differential Input … Wikipedia
Wheel train (horology) — In horology, a wheel train (or just train) is the gear train of a mechanical watch or clock.[1] Although the term is used for other types of gear trains, the long history of mechanical timepieces has created a traditional terminology for their… … Wikipedia
cogwheel — noun a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion • Syn: ↑gear, ↑gear wheel, ↑geared wheel • Hypernyms: ↑wheel • Hyponyms: ↑bevel gear, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
gear wheel — noun a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion • Syn: ↑gear, ↑geared wheel, ↑cogwheel • Hypernyms: ↑wheel • Hyponyms: ↑bevel gear, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
geared wheel — noun a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion • Syn: ↑gear, ↑gear wheel, ↑cogwheel • Hypernyms: ↑wheel • Hyponyms: ↑bevel gear, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
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Stargate (device) — For episodes of the television series, see List of Stargate SG 1 episodes, List of Stargate Atlantis episodes, and List of Stargate Universe episodes. A Stargate from Stargate SG 1. A Stargate is a portal device within the Stargate fictional… … Wikipedia
