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3 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: gearing n : 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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