power train

power train

n. An assembly of gears and associated parts by which power is transmitted from an engine to a driving axle.

pow′er train`

n. a connected set of gears and shafts transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.

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power train - wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain"gearing, geartrain, gear, trainengine - motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical workepicyclic gear train, epicyclic train - a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axisreduction gear - gearing that reduces an input speed to a slower output speedwheelwork - mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears)