(attributive) designating an epicyclic or planetary gearing in which one or more small gears or wheels (planet gears) revolve around a larger…

Of a machine, vehicle, etc.: without chain gear or chain drive as a part of the mechanism. (Usually implying its former use.)

Mechanics. Designating, relating to, or involving a part which rotates about its own centre or central axis, while the axis itself rotates about…

A gearing consisting of a central wheel and one or more outer wheels, and which operates by means of the outer wheel or wheels revolving around…

Applied to a kind of gear similar to a spiral bevel gear but having the pinion offset from the centre-line of the wheel, so that it can be used to…

= limited-slip differential n. at limited, adj. n.compounds. Frequently attributive.