Meaning of gearwork | Babel Free

Definitions

A mechanical assembly of gears.

uncountable

Examples

“He shows it all off with a child’s delight, relishing the technical details of objects like automatons, the gearwork devices that were precursors to robots; a navigational sphere, a handheld planetarium projector used on Russian space missions to align the capsule visually; and a sextant used by the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.”

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