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PLANET GEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does planet gear mean? 

PLANET GEAR (noun)
  The noun PLANET GEAR has 1 sense:

1. an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic trainplay

  Familiarity information: PLANET GEAR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLANET GEAR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

epicyclic gear; planet gear; planet wheel; planetary gear

Hypernyms ("planet gear" is a kind of...):

cogwheel; gear; gear wheel; geared wheel (a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion)

Holonyms ("planet gear" is a part of...):

epicyclic gear train; epicyclic train (a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis)


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