'Gearing' definitions:

Definition of 'gearing'

(from WordNet)
noun
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: gearing, gear, geartrain, power train, train]

Definition of 'Gearing'

From: GCIDE
  • Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Geared (g[=e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gearing.]
  • 1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mach.) To provide with gearing. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers. [PJC]
  • Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gearing'

From: GCIDE
  • Gearing \Gear"ing\, n.
  • 1. Harness. [1913 Webster]
  • 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 a locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. [1913 Webster]
  • Frictional gearing. See under Frictional.
  • Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitting 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. [1913 Webster]

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