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POWER TRAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does power train mean? 

POWER TRAIN (noun)
  The noun POWER TRAIN has 1 sense:

1. wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changedplay

  Familiarity information: POWER TRAIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POWER TRAIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gear; gearing; geartrain; power train; train

Context example:

the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain

Hypernyms ("power train" is a kind of...):

wheelwork (mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power train"):

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

reduction gear (gearing that reduces an input speed to a slower output speed)

Holonyms ("power train" is a part of...):

engine (motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work)


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