English Explanatory Dictionary

Hooke's gearing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

Word forms

Hooke's gearing

Etymology

So called from the inventor.

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