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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See transmission.
  2. n. A protective casing for a system of gears.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A box inclosing gearing to protect it.

Wiktionary

  1. n. That part of a car's transmission containing the train of gears, and to which the gear lever is connected.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. the metal casing in which a train of gears is sealed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed
  2. n. the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed

Etymologies

  1. gear + box (Wiktionary)

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