pinion and crown wheel

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   gears that mesh at an angle

   Synonymsbevel gearpinion and ring gear

   Broadergear

   Narrowerdifferential gear

Questions about pinion and crown wheel

What does pinion and crown wheel mean?

pinion and crown wheel means "gears that mesh at an angle".

What is another word for pinion and crown wheel?

Close synonyms include bevel gear, pinion and ring 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 pinion and crown wheel a common word?

pinion and crown wheel 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.