thrust bearing

1. 1.

   a bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution

   Broaderbearing

Questions about thrust bearing

What does thrust bearing mean?

thrust bearing means "a bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution".

Is thrust bearing a common word?

thrust 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.