'Eccentric gear' definitions:

Definition of 'Eccentric gear'

From: GCIDE
  • Eccentric \Ec*cen"tric\ ([e^]k*s[e^]n"tr[i^]k), a. [F. excentrique, formerly also spelled eccentrique, fr. LL. eccentros out of the center, eccentric, Gr. 'e`kkentros; 'ek out of + ke`ntron center. See Ex-, and Center, and cf. Excentral.]
  • 1. Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Mach.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Not coincident as to motive or end. [1913 Webster]
  • His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. "This brave and eccentric young man." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. --Savage. [1913 Webster]
  • Eccentric anomaly. (Astron.) See Anomaly.
  • Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric combinations of eccentric circles.
  • Eccentric gear. (Mach.) (a) The whole apparatus, strap, and other parts, by which the motion of an eccentric is transmitted, as in the steam engine. (b) A cogwheel set to turn about an eccentric axis used to give variable rotation.
  • Eccentric hook or Eccentric gab, a hook-shaped journal box on the end of an eccentric rod, opposite the strap.
  • Eccentric rod, the rod that connects an eccentric strap with any part to be acted upon by the eccentric.
  • Eccentric sheave, or Eccentric pulley, an eccentric.
  • Eccentric strap, the ring, operating as a journal box, that encircles and receives motion from an eccentric; -- called also eccentric hoop.
  • Syn: Irregular; anomalous; singular; odd; peculiar; erratic; idiosyncratic; strange; whimsical. [1913 Webster]