reduction gear

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   gearing that reduces an input speed to a slower output speed

   Broadergearing

Questions about reduction gear

What does reduction gear mean?

reduction gear means "gearing that reduces an input speed to a slower output speed".

Is reduction gear a common word?

reduction gear 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.