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roller bearing

roller bearing noun: a bearing in which the load is carried by round (e.g. cylindrical or spherical) elements (rollers).

roller bearing: a bearing in which the load is carried by round (e.g. cylindrical or spherical) elements (rollers)
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Noun

roller bearing (plural roller bearings)

  1. A bearing in which the load is carried by round (e.g. cylindrical or spherical) elements (rollers).
    • Thirty mixed-traffic 4-8-2 locomotives recently completed by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for the 3 ft. 6 in. gauge Gold Coast Government Railway have all their axles, big ends, and coupling and eccentric rods fitted with British Timken roller bearings.1952 February, “New Locomotives for the Gold Coast [now Ghana]”, in Railway Magazine, page 74
    • In 1930 the proposal of placing all axles of a steam locomotive on roller bearings was viewed so suspiciously that the Timken Roller Bearing Company couldn't even obtain permission to equip an existing engine at its own expense. (It ended up buying a demonstrator loco and equipping that with roller...1959, edited by David P. Morgan, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.
    1. (especially) Such a bearing with cylindrical rollers rather than spherical ones (balls).

roller bearing meaning in Tamil

roller bearing in Tamil

உருளை தாங்கி, உருளைத் தாங்கி, உருளிப்போதிகை, உருள் தாங்கி, உருளைப்போதிகை, உருளைத்தாங்கி

Forms of roller bearing

pluralroller bearings

Questions about roller bearing

What does roller bearing mean?
Roller bearing means a bearing in which the load is carried by round (e.g. cylindrical or spherical) elements (rollers).
What is roller bearing in Tamil?
Roller bearing in Tamil is உருளை தாங்கி, உருளைத் தாங்கி, உருளிப்போதிகை. See Roller bearing meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is roller bearing?
Roller bearing is a noun.
What is the plural of roller bearing?
The plural of roller bearing is roller bearings.

Words near roller bearing in the dictionary

  1. rolled with the punches
  2. rolledst
  3. rolleo
  4. rolleos
  5. roller
  6. roller bearing
  7. roller bearings
  8. roller bed
  9. roller beds
  10. roller blade
  11. roller blades

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