Definition of Ball bearing

1. Noun. Bearings containing small metal balls.

Exact synonyms: Needle Bearing, Roller Bearing
Generic synonyms: Bearing

Definition of Ball bearing

1. Noun. In engineering, a bearing assembly which uses spherical bearing balls as the rolling elements ¹

2. Noun. In common usage, an individual spherical ball, usually made of steel or other hard material, suitable for use in a ball-based rolling element bearing ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ball Bearing

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ball-peen hammer
ball-peen hammers
ball-pein hammer
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ball-point pen
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ball and socket joint
ball and socket joints
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Literary usage of Ball bearing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"Fa 11 Type Annular ball bearing. The halis »r« introduced through the cross ... A non-adjustable ball bearing with flat instead of grooved outer ball track ..."

2. Machine Design by Forrest Robert Jones (1903)
"51.6 shows a ball bearing in which the balls have a pure rolling action Pis. 51.0. on cylindrical bearing surfaces. The ball cage is a hollow circular ..."

3. Belt Conveyors and Belt Elevators by Frederic Valerius Hetzel (1922)
"Ball-bearing Idlers were made in a tentative way for years by several manufacturers; in most of them the cast-iron pulleys were bored and fitted with a ..."

4. Handbook for Machine Designers and Draftsmen by Frederick Arthur Halsey (1913)
"A ball bearing, like a plain bearing, must have a running clearance; but in the well-made ball bearing this clearance is much smaller than in a plain ..."

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