ball bearing

See also: ballbearing

English

ball bearing

Alternative forms

• ballbearing

Noun

ball bearing (plural ball bearings)

2. (mechanical engineering) A bearing assembly which uses spherical bearing balls as the rolling elements, usually consisting of two ballraces (rings).

   Hypernyms: roller bearing (broad sense) < bearing < component, part

   Coordinate term: roller bearing (narrow sense)

4. (loosely, often) An individual spherical ball, usually made of steel or other hard material, suitable for use in a ball-based rolling element bearing.

   Synonyms: ball, (precise usage) bearing ball

Derived terms

• ball bearing retainer
• caged ball bearing

Translations

bearing assembly with spherical balls

• Armenian: գնդառանցքակալ (hy) (gndaṙancʻkʻakal), գնդավոր առանցքակալ (gndavor aṙancʻkʻakal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滾珠軸承 / 滚珠轴承 (zh) (gǔnzhū zhóuchéng)

• Czech: kuličkové ložisko n
• Danish: kugleleje
• Dutch: kogellager (nl) n
• Estonian: kuullaager
• Finnish: kuulalaakeri (fi)
• French: roulement à billes (fr) m, roulement mécanique m
• German: Kugellager (de) n
• Hungarian: golyóscsapágy (hu)
• Icelandic: kúlulega f
• Japanese: 玉軸受 (たまじくうけ, tamajikuuke), ボールベアリング (bōrubearingu)
• Latvian: lodīšu gultnis
• Navajo: béésh máazoo
• Norman: rouôl'lie à balles f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: kulelager n
• Polish: łożysko kulkowe n
• Portuguese: rolamento (pt) m, rolimã m (Brazil)
• Russian: шарикоподши́пник (ru) m (šarikopodšípnik)
• Spanish: cojinete (es) m, rodamiento (es) m
• Swedish: kullager (sv)
• Tagalog: bolitas

See also

• race