gearing

Other forms of gearing

plural

gearings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gearing

What does gearing mean?

gearing means "wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed".

How many syllables are in gearing?

gearing has 2 syllables: gear-ing. The stress falls on "gear". In IPA it is /ˈɡɪɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for gearing?

Close synonyms include gear, geartrain, power train, train. 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 gearing a common word?

gearing 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.