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  • noun Plural form of gearing.

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Examples

  • The maker of both steel and steel pipes and gearings plans to use the proceeds to expand production lines, according to the term sheet.

    Sunshine Oilsands Gauges Interest in Hong Kong IPO Yvonne Lee 2012

  • The maker of steel, steel pipes and gearings plans to use the proceeds to expand production lines, the term sheet says.

    Xiwang Special Steel Plans Hong Kong IPO Prudence Ho 2012

  • What I mean by that is there's lots of room for fore/aft adjustment of the rear wheel to allow for different gearings, as on a proper track frame.

    Pistolwhipped: Seminal Fingerbang BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • With the planned debt issue, analysts expect that Huadian's ratio of net debt-to-equity could rise to as much as 260% from about 200% now -- again, higher than peers, whose gearings are about 100% to 180%.

    Huadian Power's Growth Plan 2008

  • Perhaps, the researchers said, the mechanism also had gearings to predict the positions of known planets.

    Decoding An Ancient Computer 2006

  • My eBay has restarted, and slowly but surely the gearings are churning.

    jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2006

  • The wood of D. melanoxylon is used in carving, turnery and marquetry to produce sculptures, musical instruments, ornaments, inlays, chess pieces. walking sticks, gearings and many other products.

    Chapter 23 1990

  • Its name is against it and if the makers would take a tumble to themselves and call it "Mica Oil" or some catchy name and get it introduced among the users of tight gearing, they would sell just as much axle grease and all the grease for gearings.

    Rough and Tumble Engineering James H. Maggard

  • All blithely they bade him bear; arm-gearings twain,

    The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

  • J, mounted at the extremity of an axle actuated by the wheel, A, through the intermedium of gearings, g and g.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various

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