Expansion gear
- Expansion gear
- Gear Gear (g[=e]r), n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing,
adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG.
garaw[=i], garw[=i] ornament, dress. See {Yare}, and cf.
{Garb} dress.]
1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.
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Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Homely gear and common ware. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. [1913 Webster]
Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. [1913 Webster]
5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
8. (Mech.) (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. (b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. [1913 Webster]
9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st {Jeer} (b) . [1913 Webster]
10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Wright. [1913 Webster]
That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
{Bever gear}. See {Bevel gear}.
{Core gear}, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See {Mortise wheel}, under {Mortise}.
{Expansion gear} (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under {Expansion}.
{Feed gear}. See {Feed motion}, under {Feed}, n.
{Gear cutter}, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting.
{Gear wheel}, any cogwheel.
{Running gear}. See under {Running}.
{To throw in gear} or {To throw out of gear} (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation. [1913 Webster]
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Expansion gear — Expansion Ex*pan sion, n. [L. expansio: cf. F. expansion.] 1. The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Automatic expansion gear — Expansion Ex*pan sion, n. [L. expansio: cf. F. expansion.] 1. The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fixed expansion gear — Expansion Ex*pan sion, n. [L. expansio: cf. F. expansion.] 1. The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Expansion — Ex*pan sion, n. [L. expansio: cf. F. expansion.] 1. The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Expansion Pak — Das Expansion Pak ist eine RAM Erweiterung für das Nintendo 64, die an der Oberseite der Konsole eingesteckt werden kann. Dabei wird vorher das Jumper Pak, das effektiv als Platzhalter fungiert, entfernt. Durch diesen Umbau stehen dem Nintendo 64 … Deutsch Wikipedia
Gear — (g[=e]r), n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[=i], garw[=i] ornament, dress. See {Yare}, and cf. {Garb} dress.] 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. [1913 Webster] Array thyself … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Gear cutter — Gear Gear (g[=e]r), n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[=i], garw[=i] ornament, dress. See {Yare}, and cf. {Garb} dress.] 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. [1913 Webster]… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Gear wheel — Gear Gear (g[=e]r), n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[=i], garw[=i] ornament, dress. See {Yare}, and cf. {Garb} dress.] 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. [1913 Webster]… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Expansion Pak — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda El Expansion Pak El Expansion Pak es un añadido de RAM para la videoconsola Nintendo 64 lanzada en 1998. Le da a la Nintendo 64 una cantidad añadida de 4MB de RDRAM para tener en total el doble de la RAM … Wikipedia Español
Expansion coupling — Expansion Ex*pan sion, n. [L. expansio: cf. F. expansion.] 1. The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
