power train

Questions about power train

What does power train mean?

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

What is another word for power train?

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

power train 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.