Gear (disambiguation)
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A gear is a toothed wheel designed to transmit torque to another gear or toothed component.
Gear or gears may also refer to:
Mechanisms
- A selected combination of gears to achieve a particular gear ratio, for example with motor vehicle transmission
- Landing gear of an aircraft, referred to as gear in the aviation industry
Computing
- Gears (software) (formerly Google Gears), a browser plug-in from Google that enables development of off-line browser applications
- GEAR Software, an optical disk burning software company
- The image of a gear often symbolizes computer configuration (also known as settings, options, or preferences)
- Samsung Gear, Samsung smartwatch
Entertainment
- Gear (comics), a DC comics superhero
- Gear (Image Comics), written by Doug Tennapel and later made into a TV show called Catscratch
- Gear (magazine), an international men's magazine
- Gear (Static Shock), a DCAU superhero
- Gears (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Gears (Transformers), a character in the Transformers universe
Video games
- Gears, types of mecha in the Xenogears and Metal Gear (series) video games, as well as the Heavy Gear universe
- Gears, a type of biomechanical or mystical creature in the video games series Guilty Gear
- Gears of War The first title in the series
- Gears of War (series), by Epic Games
- Aircraft are known as Gears in Ace Online
People
- C. William Gear (1935– ), a British-American applied mathematician
- Dale Gear (1872–1951), an American Baseball player
- George Gear (1947– ), a former Australian politician
- Hosea Gear (1984– ), a New Zealand rugby player
- Jenny Gear (1982– ), a Canadian singer
- John H. Gear (1825–1900), a United States politician
- Kathleen O'Neal Gear (1954– ), an American writer
- Michael Gear (bishop) (1934– ), a former Bishop of Doncaster
- Simon Gear (1974– ), an English cricketer
- Tom Gear (1949– ), an American politician
- Walter Gear, a British astrophysicist
- William Gear (1915–1997), a Scottish painter
- W. Michael Gear (1955– ), an American writer
Other
- USS Gear (ARS-34), a U.S. Navy ship
- Gear, a term for equipment or apparel, particularly for outdoor performance equipment and apparel, motorcycle safety clothing, musical equipment and cargo
- Gear, a UK slang for illegal narcotics
- GEAR (Growth, Employment and Redistribution) is a neo-liberal strategy of the South-African Government from 1996 to 2000.
- GEAR (Gender Equality Architecture Reform) Campaign, a campaign to create the UN Women organization
- Music gear, a term for instruments and sound reinforcement equipment
See also
- Camping gear
- Gearing (disambiguation)
- Top Gear (disambiguation)
- Geared or gearing, a term used in ship transport to indicate whether a vessel has cranes on board
- All pages beginning with "gear"
- All pages with titles containing "gear"