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名詞

gear change (plural gear changes)

1. (especially automotive) An instance of changing gears (shifting gears).

   Hypernyms: (elliptically synonymous) change, shift

   Hyponyms: upshift, downshift, kickdown

   This transmission is so smooth and quiet that you hardly even notice a gear change.

   • 1960 August, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 463:

     The train speeds at which gear changes are made are 15, 27 and 41 m.p.h., and quite an appreciable number of seconds can be economised in running if precisely the correct moment is chosen to change.

派生語

• truck driver's gear change

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参考

参照

• “gear change”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “gearchange”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.