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n. - Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating adjustments of a transmission by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.

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  • The fool got his tie caught in the geartrain
  • "Every geartrain that you drive power through causes you to lose power," Prucha said.
  • The FD antenna tuner I described would use a pair of common relays, the motor and geartrain from an old electric screwdriver, and some odds and ends.
  • For vertex processing dominated tests (like geartrain which went from 35fps to 110fps) the improvements are between 2x to about 6x, for cases which are dominated by...
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