roller bearing

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   bearings containing small metal balls

   Synonymsball bearingneedle bearing

   Broaderbearing

Questions about roller bearing

What does roller bearing mean?

roller bearing means "bearings containing small metal balls".

What is another word for roller bearing?

Close synonyms include ball bearing, needle 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 roller bearing a common word?

roller 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.