English Explanatory Dictionary

sun gear

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The central gear wheel of an epicyclic gear train; the central gear in planetary gear box, which spins the planet gears

Word forms

sun gear sun gears

Etymology

By analogy to a sun with planets rotating around it.

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