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gear shifts

gear shifts is the plural of gear shift.

Meaning of gear shift

Noun

gear shift (plural gear shifts)

  1. That part of a gearbox involved in changing gear, including the lever and the forks attached to it.
  2. (Canada, US) The lever or other interface a human uses to shift gears.
  3. (figuratively) a stark change, esp. between considerably differently paced things (e. g. in a narration, topics on an agenda, music)

Questions about gear shifts

What is gear shifts the plural of?
Gear shifts is the plural of gear shift.

Words near gear shifts in the dictionary

  1. gear queer
  2. gear queers
  3. gear ratio
  4. gear ratios
  5. gear shift
  6. gear shifts
  7. gear stick
  8. gear sticks
  9. gear to
  10. gear towards
  11. gear train

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