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gearwork

gearwork noun: a mechanical assembly of gears.

Noun

gearwork (uncountable)

  1. A mechanical assembly of gears.
    • He shows it all off with a child’s delight, relishing the technical details of objects like automatons, the gearwork devices that were precursors to robots; a navigational sphere, a handheld planetarium projector used on Russian space missions to align the capsule visually; and a sextant used by...2007 October 3, John Schwartz, “Texas Man Linked to Past and Future of Space Exploration by Sputnik and Soyuz”, in New York Times

Origin of gearwork

From gear + work.

Questions about gearwork

What does gearwork mean?
Gearwork means a mechanical assembly of gears.
What part of speech is gearwork?
Gearwork is a noun.

Words near gearwork in the dictionary

  1. gearsticks
  2. geartrain
  3. geartrains
  4. gearwheel
  5. gearwheels
  6. gearwork
  7. Geary
  8. Geary County
  9. Gearys
  10. Gearys Flat
  11. geas

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