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Definition: Ball Bearing |
Ball BearingNoun1. Bearings containing small metal balls. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mechanical Engineering | An antifriction bearing in which the rolling elements are spherical. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A friction-reducing device consisting of hard steel balls in a circular race; also applied to some pieces of equipment, such as a swivel-type double-tube core barrel, in diamond drilling using ball bearings asload-bearing members on rotating parts. See also:bearing. (references) |
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Synonyms: Ball BearingSynonyms: needle bearing (n), roller bearing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ball Bearing |
| English words defined with "ball bearing": eight ball. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ball bearing": annular bearing ♦ ball bearing plummer block, ball-bearing pillow block, bearing inspector, BEARING-RING ASSEMBLER ♦ roller-bearing assembler, ROLLER-BEARING INSPECTOR ♦ SALVAGE ENGINEER, self-aligning ball bearing, self-aligning ball journal, self-aligning radial ball bearing ♦ TESTER, SOUND ♦ unit assembler ♦ Woehler test. (references) |
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Expression using "ball bearing": ball bearing plummer block. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ball bearing | 387 |
detroit ball bearing | 17 |
ball bearing slide | 17 |
ceramic ball bearing | 16 |
linear ball bearing | 15 |
ball bearing hampshire new | 15 |
ball bearing turbo | 12 |
precision ball bearing | 12 |
miniature ball bearing | 11 |
steel ball bearing | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ball bearing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | saçme (ball, pellet, shot), kushinetë me saçme. (various references) | |
Arabic | محمل الكريات, جزء من الماكينة تدور به أجزاؤها المتحركة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сачмен лагер. (various references) | |
Czech | kulièkové ložisko. (various references) | |
Danish | leje med kugler, kugleleje. (various references) | |
Dutch | kogelleger, kogellager. (various references) | |
Finnish | kuulalaakeri (ball-bearings). (various references) | |
French | butée billes, roulement radial billes, roulement billes, roulement bille, palier rouleaux coniques, palier billes (ball bearing plummer block, ball-bearing pillow block). (various references) | |
German | kugellager (bearing). (various references) | |
Greek | ένσφαιροσ τριβέασ, ένσφαιρος τριβέας, ρουλεμάν (ball bearings, bearing), σφαιρικό έδρανο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסב כ"וריות, מסב 'ולים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | golyóscsapágy. (various references) | |
Italian | cuscinetto di supporto a sfere, cuscinetto a sfere (ball bearing plummer block, ball-bearing pillow block), cuscinetto a sfera. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ボーデの法則 (ball, ball-point pen, baudon, bawling, board, board-level, boardsailing, boat neck, boat people, Bode's law, bold, bonus, Borden, boring, Boulder, bowl, bowling, count of balls and strikes, rowing boat, vaudeville, vaudevillian). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボールベアリング . (various references) | |
Manx | bluckan (ball, croquette). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allbay earingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rolamento de esferas, rolamento de esfera, chumaceira de rolamento de esferas. (various references) | |
Russian | шарикоподшипник (ballbearing, ball-bearing, ballearing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kuglager. (various references) | |
Spanish | cojinete de bolas. (various references) | |
Swedish | kullager. (various references) | |
Turkish | bilyeli yatak (ballbearing), bilye (agate, ball, ballbearing, marble, Taw). (various references) | |
Ukranian | шарикова опора, шарикопідшипник. (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Ball Bearing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ballbearing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-e-g-i-l-l-n-r" | |
-2 letters: ballerina. | |
-3 letters: allergin, bailable, beanball, blearing, gainable, galleria, geranial, inarable, labeling, rabbling. | |
-4 letters: abelian, albinal, algebra, aligner, anergia, balling, balneal, barbell, barbing, bargain, barilla, beanbag, bearing, belling, blaring, braille, engrail, gabbier, gabbler, gallein, glibber, grabble, gribble, langrel, liberal, linable, nargile, nibbler, ralline, realign, regalia, reginal. | |
-5 letters: abelia, aerial, aglare, agnail, airbag, alegar, alible, aliner, angler, anlage, arable, argali, baaing, bailer, baling, baller, banger, bangle, barbal, barbel, baring, begall, berlin, biller, binger, earing, ebbing, gabber, gabble, gainer, galena, garble, genial, gerbil, gibber, giller, glaire, graben, grille, laager, labial, labile, larine, liable, libber, liblab, librae, lienal, linage, lineal, linear, linger, nabber, nailer, narial, nibble, rabbin, rabble, raglan, reagin, realia, rebill, regain, regina, regnal, renail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-e-g-i-l-l-n-r" | |
+5 letters: flabbergastingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 6C      42 65 61 72 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01000010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l l   B e a r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 006C      0042 0065 0061 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36677878236716784758073 |
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