pinion gear

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• pinion gear — Pinion Gear: The smaller of two meshing gears. A pinion gear is used in a starter motor to engage the flywheel ring gear and also rides along the surface of the steering rack (a rod with grooves cut in it to mesh with the gear) See rack and… …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Gear — For the gear like device used to drive a roller chain, see Sprocket. This article is about mechanical gears. For other uses, see Gear (disambiguation). Two meshing gears transmitting rotational motion. Note that the smaller gear is rotating… …   Wikipedia

• Pinion — A pinion is usually the smallest gear in a gear drive train. In many cases, such as remote controlled toys, the pinion is also the drive gear. In the case of John Blenkinsop s The Salamanca the pinion was rather large.The term is also commonly… …   Wikipedia

• gear — Wheel like part with teeth cut into the rim. When one gear meshes with another gear, it causes the second gear to drive the other and in this way transmits power. When the gears are different sizes (different number of teeth on each gear) the… …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• pinion carrier — That part of the rear axle assembly that supports and contains the pinion gear shaft …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Pinion (disambiguation) — Pinion may refer to:* Pinion, the smallest gear in a gear drive train * Pinion (song), a song by Nine Inch Nails from the 1992 EP Broken * Pinions, the outermost primary flight feathers on a bird s wing * Pinioning, the act of surgically removing …   Wikipedia

• Gear cutting — is any number of methods used to manufacture precision gears.Gear hobbing is a method by which a special hobbing anto cutter and gear blank are rotated at the same time to transfer the profile of the hob onto the gear blank.Spur and other… …   Wikipedia

• Gear (disambiguation) — Gear is a toothed wheel designed to transmit torque to another gear or toothed component.Gear and similar may also refer to:Mechanisms: See template at foot of this page * Gearbox * Gear ratio * Gear shift, in automotive terms, one of a series of …   Wikipedia

• pinion — pinion1 [pin′yən] n. [Fr pignon < VL * pinnio < L pinna, bucket of a paddle wheel, lit., feather, var. of penna (see PEN2): assoc. in MFr with peigner, to comb: see PEIGNOIR] a small gear, the teeth of which fit into those of a larger gear… …   English World dictionary

• gear — [n1] equipment accessory, accouterment, adjunct, apparatus, appendage, appurtenance, baggage, belongings, contraption, effects, encumbrances, fittings, habiliment, harness, impedimenta, instrument, kit, kit and kaboodle*, luggage, machinery,… …   New thesaurus

• gear|wheel — «GIHR HWEEL», noun. 1. a wheel having teeth that fit into the teeth of another wheel of the same kind in order to move it or be moved by it; cogwheel; gear. 2. the larger of a set of meshing gears, distinguished from a pinion, the smaller …   Useful english dictionary