gearbox

English

Etymology

gear +‎ box

Alternative forms

• gear box
• gear-box

Pronunciation

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Noun

gearbox (plural gearboxes)

1. An enclosed gear train.
2. That part of a car's transmission containing the train of gears, and to which the gear lever is connected.

Synonyms

• transmission (gear box transmission)

Hyponyms

• slushbox

Coordinate terms

• continuously variable transmission
• torque converter

Translations

train of gears

• Bulgarian: скоростна кутия f (skorostna kutija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變速器 (zh), 变速器 (zh) (biànsùqì)

• Czech: převodovka (cs) f
• Danish: gearkasse c
• Dutch: versnellingsbak (nl)
• Finnish: vaihdelaatikko (fi), vaihteisto (fi)
• French: boite de vitesse (fr)
• Georgian: კოლოფი (ḳolopi), გადაცემათა კოლოფი (gadacemata ḳolopi), სიჩქარეთა კოლოფი (sičkareta ḳolopi)
• German: Getriebe (de) n

• Greek: κιβώτιο ταχυτήτων n (kivótio tachytíton)
• Hungarian: sebességváltó (hu), sebváltó, váltó (hu)
• Italian: scatola del cambio
• Japanese: ギアボックス (giabokkusu), 変速機 (へんそくき, hensokuki)
• Norwegian: girkasse m or f
• Portuguese: caixa de câmbio
• Romanian: cutie de viteze f
• Russian: коро́бка переда́ч (ru) f (koróbka peredáč), коро́бка скоросте́й (ru) f (koróbka skorostéj), коро́бка переключе́ния переда́ч f (koróbka pereključénija peredáč)
• Spanish: caja de cambios f, caja de velocidades f
• Swedish: växellåda (sv) c