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   Gear  v. t. [imp. & p. p. Geared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gearing.]
   To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
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   (Mach.) To provide with gearing.
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   To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.
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   Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.
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   Gearing, n.
   Harness.
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   (Mach.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of a locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
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   Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitting motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.
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