Log in or Sign up
  1. epicyclic train love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A system of gears in which at least one rotating gear revolves about another.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Mach.) a train of mechanism in which epicyclic motion is involved; esp., a train of spur wheels, bevel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the other wheels.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis

Examples

Sorry, no example sentences found.

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. gearing
  1. gear
  1. train
  1. power train
  1. geartrain

reverse dictionary (11)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. epicycle
  2. planet gear
  1. epicyclic train
  2. differential gearing
  1. jack-in-a-box
  2. planet wheel
  1. differential gear
  2. planetary gear
  1. sun gear
  2. epicyclic gear
  1. planet-wheel

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘epicyclic train’.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for epicyclic train.

‘epicyclic train’ has been looked up 404 times, added to 1 list, and is not a valid Scrabble word.