Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system of gears and associated elements by which motion is transferred within a machine.
- noun The act or technique of providing with gears.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Gear; dress; harness.
- noun In machinery, the parts collectively by which motion communicated to one part of a machine is transmitted to another; specifically, a train of toothed wheels for transmitting motion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Harness.
- noun (Mach.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; ; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
- noun See under
Frictional . - noun an endless chain transmitting motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See
Illust. ofChain wheel . - noun gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
ratio of a system ofgears . - verb Present participle of
gear .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
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Examples
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And it seems to me that as it relates to what we call your gearing ratio, or your quarter one, are now less than three to one structure.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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And it seems to me that as it relates to what we call your gearing ratio, or your quarter one, are now less than three to one structure.
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The biggest problem was that in gearing up to fight the good fight for the public option, etc., many people started to believe the nonsense that the current bill is actually worse than the status quo.
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Add a little debt to the balance sheet—my editor used the quaint English jargon "gearing" instead of the now-famous "leverage"—and any dowdy financial firm can transform itself into a high-octane profit machine.
'Lazy' Banks Make Sense Francesco Guerrera 2011
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Becky was a little stretched out on the bike, and the gearing is more race-oriented than she needs, but it worked fine as a campus commuter.
The Makings of a Perfect Seattle Commuter Bike « PubliCola 2010
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And that discussion sometimes do result in gearing the children in finding other books that actually do speak to them than the initial query.
Yikes Roger Sutton 2008
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Investment trust managers have another weapon in their armoury that unit trust managers don't have - the ability to borrow money to buy shares this is known as gearing.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Investment trust managers have another weapon in their armoury that unit trust managers don't have - the ability to borrow money to buy shares this is known as gearing.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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But Suzlon's debt covenants with its lenders say that so-called gearing ratio can be no larger than 1.0.
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The so called gearing effect has also meant that any council that spends above SSA faces huge increases in council tax.
Opportunism and Hypocrisy Glyn Davies 2007
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