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Definition of Geared

1. Adjective. Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.

Definition of Geared

1. Verb. (past of gear) ¹

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Definition of Geared

1. gear [v] - See also: gear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Geared

Literary usage of Geared

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

1. Text-book of Advanced Machine Work: Prepared for Students in Technical by Robert Henry Smith (1915)
"Two types of shapers of leading designs are geared Shapers and Crank Shapers. 68. The geared-shaper ram is driven by a spur gear meshing with a rack ..."

2. Handbook of Ship Calculations, Construction and Operation: A Book of by Charles Haynes Hughes (1917)
"geared Turbines.-—In recent practice the driving of the propeller shaft by the turbine ... For cargo steamers of 15 knots or under, geared turbines have ..."

3. Mechanics by Lewis Raymond Smith (1922)
"... of a Yale differential, screw-geared and spur-geared chain block. small volume, to examine many of the machines in common use. Those selected, however ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"By means of the operating pinion which is geared to the strut, and to which in turn is geared the operating mechanism, the bridge may be raised or lowered, ..."

5. Elevators: A Practical Treatise on the Development and Design of Hand, Belt by John H. Jallings (1918)
"They may be classified as either spur- or worm-geared. In making this statement it is done advisedly, for, while there are doubtless others, ..."

6. Bicycles & Tricycles: An Elementary Treatise on Their Design and by Archibald Sharp (1896)
"132. . ,f makers of the ' Facile ' and ' geared Facile ' had amalgamated—brought out a geared Ordinary. This bicycle was in external appearance just like a ..."

7. The Airplane Engine by Lionel Simeon Marks (1922)
"CHAPTER XV geared PROPELLER DRIVES A well designed airplane engine develops its maximum power at a speed (rpm) considerably in excess of the most efficient ..."

8. A Treatise on Cranes by Henry Robinson Towne (1883)
"WESTON'S "geared" DIFFERENTIAL PULLEY BLOCKS. One man can lift from 2000 to 5000 Ibs. ... SIZES OF geared BLOCKS. *NOTK.—Figures in fourth column denote ..."

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