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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 changed
Familiarity information: POWER TRAIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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