gear change

See also: gearchange

English

Noun

gear change (plural gear changes)

1. (automotive) A mechanism which changes gears in a vehicle.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• truck driver's gear change

Related terms

• gear-changing

Translations

mechanism which changes gears in a car

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變速桿 / 变速杆 (zh) (biànsùgān)

• Finnish: vaihteenvalitsin
• Italian: cambio (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: girskift n, girskifte n

  Nynorsk: girskift n, girskifte n

• Spanish: cambio de marchas m

See also

• gearbox

References

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