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Ball Bearing

Definition: Ball Bearing

Ball Bearing

Noun

1. Bearings containing small metal balls.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Ball Bearing

DomainDefinitions

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Ball Bearing

Synonyms: needle bearing (n), roller bearing (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ball Bearing

English words defined with "ball bearing": eight ball. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ball bearing": annular bearingball bearing plummer block, ball-bearing pillow block, bearing inspector, BEARING-RING ASSEMBLERroller-bearing assembler, ROLLER-BEARING INSPECTORSALVAGE ENGINEER, self-aligning ball bearing, self-aligning ball journal, self-aligning radial ball bearingTESTER, SOUNDunit assemblerWoehler test. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Ball Bearing

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ball Bearing Lubrication: The Elastohydrodynamics of Elliptical Contacts (reference)

  • They Don't Teach That in Medical School: Sex With a Ball Bearing and Other Unusual Stories (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • Freud 99-029 1/4" Fluting Router Bit with Double Ball Bearing with 1/2" Shank (reference)

  • Freud RC-003 72 mm Ball Bearing Rub Collar for 3/4" Spindle Shaper (reference)

  • General Tools 77 Ball Bearing Automatic Center Punch (reference)

  • Delta 46-712 Economy Ball Bearing Center (reference)

  • Freud 62-122 1-1/2" OD by 8mm ID Replacement Ball Bearing for Freud Router Bit (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Ball Bearing

Expression using "ball bearing": ball bearing plummer block. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ball Bearing

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Ball Bearing

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Ball Bearing

Misspellings

"Ball Bearing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ballbearing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Ball Bearing

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ball Bearing


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 6C 6C      42 65 61 72 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01000010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#66 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#103

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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