ball bearing

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   bearings containing small metal balls

   Synonymsneedle bearingroller bearing

   Broaderbearing

Questions about ball bearing

What does ball bearing mean?

ball bearing means "bearings containing small metal balls".

What is another word for ball bearing?

Close synonyms include needle bearing, roller bearing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ball bearing a common word?

ball bearing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.