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Definition of High gear

1. Noun. A forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed.

Lexicographical Neighbors of High Gear

Literary usage of High gear

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

1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"Practically all the running speeds needed for ordinary travel are obtained on high gear, and it is seldom necessary to use the low gear except to give the ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"From this it will be apparent that for hilly country a very high gear is inadvisable ... Assuming that the high-gear machine succeeded in getting up, ..."

3. Motor Vehicle Engineering; Engines (for Automobiles, Trucks, and Tractors) by Ethelbert Favary (1920)
"The specification contains the following clauses: Tractive Factor on high gear to be not less than .0775 (which was subsequently changed to .063). ..."

4. The Horseless Age (1909)
"14, Volume 24, you make a statement to the effect that "very few magnetos are so adjusted as to run their cars on the high gear at a sufficiently low speed ..."

5. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1913)
"With a four speed gear it is customary to start on second, and the sequence of motions in going from one gear position to another until the high gear is ..."

6. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Operation and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1917)
"Answer—The answer is read directly: 1040 pounds for high gear and 3730 pounds for low gear. Grade Determination.—A writer in the Automobile explains the ..."

7. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Operation and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1917)
"Answer—The answer is read directly: 1040 pounds for high gear and 3730 pounds for low gear. Grade Determination.—A writer in the Automobile explains the ..."

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