geartrain

Other forms of geartrain

plural

geartrains·

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 geartrain

What does geartrain mean?

geartrain 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 geartrain?

geartrain has 3 syllables: ge-ar-train. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for geartrain?

Close synonyms include gearing, gear, 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 geartrain a common word?

geartrain 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.