gear mechanism

Questions about gear mechanism

What does gear mechanism mean?

gear mechanism means "a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)".

What is another word for gear mechanism?

Close synonyms include gear. 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 mechanism a common word?

gear mechanism 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.