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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A friction-reducing bearing consisting essentially of a ring-shaped track containing freely revolving hard metal balls against which a rotating shaft or other part turns.
  2. n. A hard ball used in such a bearing.

Wiktionary

  1. n. In engineering, a bearing assembly which uses spherical bearing balls as the rolling elements
  2. n. In common usage, an individual spherical ball, usually made of steel or other hard material, suitable for use in a ball-based rolling element bearing

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. bearings containing small metal balls

Examples

  • “These happy wanderers pull into class in the morning and appear as if their heads are mounted on a very loose ball bearing or an unstable turret, as they are feverishlyscanning their environment.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Mind at a Time

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