needle bearing

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   bearings containing small metal balls

   Synonymsball bearingroller bearing

   Broaderbearing

Questions about needle bearing

What does needle bearing mean?

needle bearing means "bearings containing small metal balls".

What is another word for needle bearing?

Close synonyms include ball 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 needle bearing a common word?

needle 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.