What does gear case mean?

gear case means "the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed".

What is another word for gear case?

Close synonyms include gearbox, gear box. 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 gear case a common word?

gear case is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

gear case — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1.
the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed
Synonymsgearbox gear box
Broadershell
Part oftransmission
Partstransmission shaft

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