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    PLANET GEAR

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    An outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic trainplay

    Synonyms:

    epicyclic gear; planet gear; planet wheel; planetary gear

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("planet gear" is a kind of...):

    cogwheel; gear; gear wheel; geared wheel (a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion)

    Holonyms ("planet gear" is a part of...):

    epicyclic gear train; epicyclic train (a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis)

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