单词 | mitre gear |
释义 | > as lemmasmitre gear mitre gear n. Engineering either of a pair of bevelled gearwheels with teeth set at 45 degrees, the axes of which are at right angles to one another (see also quot. 1909). ΚΠ 1876 J. D. McCabe Illustr. Hist. Centennial Exhib. 438 The shafting, its mitre gears, pillow-blocks and pulleys, weigh two hundred tons. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Miter-gear, a bevel-gear having an angle of 90° at the apex of its pitch-cone; a bevel-gear whose teeth make an angle of 45° with the axis; one of a pair of equal bevel-gears whose axes form a right angle. 1980 R. D. Bent & J. L. McKinley Aircraft Maintenance & Repair (ed. 4) xv. 517/2 The chain turns another sprocket wheel connected through a shaft to a mitre gear. < as lemmas |
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