Gearing
61Negative Gearing — Borrowing money to buy an investment asset without receiving enough income from the investment to cover the interest expenses and other costs inolved in maintaining it. Depending on the investor s home country, the shortfall between income earned …
62financial gearing — See gearing. For a company, financial gearing is measured either by its gearing ratio or by interest cover. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial glossary …
63equity gearing — UK US noun [U] FINANCE ► GEARING(Cf. ↑gearing) …
64Differential gearing — differential dif fer*en tial, a. [Cf. F. diff[ e]rentiel.] 1. Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate. [1913 Webster] For… …
65Hooke's gearing — Hooke s gear ing [So called from the inventor.] (Mach.) Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle. [1913 Webster] …
66Intermittent gearing — Intermittent In ter*mit tent, a. [L. intermittens, entis, p. pr. of intermittere: cf. F. intermittent.] Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. Boyle. [1913 Webster] {Intermittent fever} (Med.) …
67Spiral gearing — Spiral Spi ral, a. [Cf. F. spiral. See {Spire} a winding line.] 1. Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring. [1913 Webster] 2. Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis,… …
68step gearing — See half step gearing wide step gearing …
69friction gearing — noun also friction gear : a gearing for transmitting motion by surface friction instead of by teeth * * * wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact. [1885 90] * * * friction gear or friction gearing, a set of gears without …
70chain-gearing — chainˈ gear or chainˈ gearing noun Gearing consisting of an endless chain and (generally) sprocket wheels • • • Main Entry: ↑chain …