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roller bearings

roller bearings is the plural of roller bearing.

Meaning of roller bearing

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
    1. (especially) Such a bearing with cylindrical rollers rather than spherical ones (balls).

Questions about roller bearings

What is roller bearings the plural of?
Roller bearings is the plural of roller bearing.

Words near roller bearings in the dictionary

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

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