needle bearing

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Noun

needle bearing (plural needle bearings)

  2. A type of roller bearing in which the load-bearing elements are longish, thin, cylindrical pins.
    Hypernyms: roller bearing < roller bearing < bearing < component, part
    Coordinate term: ball bearing
    • 1958 April, “British Railways First Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
      The drive from each hydraulic transmission to the axle-mounted gearboxes on the outer axles of each bogie is through cardan shafts fitted with needle-bearing universal joints.

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