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SUN GEAR
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The central gear in an epicyclic train
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sun gear" is a kind of...):
cogwheel; gear; gear wheel; geared wheel (a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion)
Holonyms ("sun gear" is a part of...):
epicyclic gear train; epicyclic train (a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis)