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planet gear

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planet gear [′plan·ət ‚gir]
(mechanical engineering)
A pinion in a planetary gear train.
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In response Watt and William Murdock invented the sun and planet gear system, whereby one or more outer gears, or planet gears, rotate around a central or sun gear.
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Precision honing of the sun and planet gears produces high efficiency with a backlash of less than 8 arc minutes and exact ratios of 3:1 to 64:1.
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