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
- 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
- GEAR (show), a long-run theatre show based in Kyoto, Japan.
- Gear (Village Voice), a 1969 character sketch in The Village Voice
- Gears (album), an album by Johnny Hammond
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
- Geared (video game), an iOS game
People with the surname
- C. William Gear (born 1935), British-American applied mathematician
- Dale Gear (1872–1951), American baseball-player
- George Gear (born 1947), former Australian politician
- Hosea Gear (born 1984), New Zealand rugby-player
- Jenny Gear (born 1982), Canadian singer
- John H. Gear (1825–1900), United States politician
- Kathleen O'Neal Gear (born 1954), American writer
- Michael Gear (bishop) (born 1934), former Bishop of Doncaster
- Simon Gear (born 1974), English cricketer
- Tom Gear (1949-2018), American politician
- Walter Gear, British astrophysicist
- William Gear (1915–1997), Scottish painter
- W. Michael Gear (born 1955), American writer
Other
- USS Gear (ARS-34), a 1942 U.S. Navy ship
- Gear, a UK slang for illegal narcotics
- GEAR (Growth, Employment and Redistribution), 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 with titles beginning with gear
- All pages with titles containing gear
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