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Change gears
Answer for the clue "Change gears ", 7 letters:
upshift
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context automotive English) A shift to a higher gear vb. 1 (context automotive English) To shift to a higher gear 2 (context science engineering English) To shift to a higher level, such as of frequency or growth rate
Usage examples of upshift.
Only pings with an upshift or downshift in frequency passed through the filter since a moving object physically changed sound waves.
Useful in zig detection, when a down shifted frequency shows the target moving away and an upshift shows the target turning toward own ship.
Throttling up, he crouched behind the handlebars and swooped at Fleur before she could set her wheels firmly and upshift to a higher gear.
As it grew louder, he recognized it as the noise made by a laboring engine as the vehicle upshifted, then downshifted.
Rourke hammered his right foot down on the accelerator, released, double-clutched, and upshifted, then stomped the accelerator again.
Slamming some dumb little car around corners, upshifting and downshifting?
As it grew louder, he recognized it as the noise made by a laboring engine as the vehicle upshifted, then downshifted.
Usually just backing off on the gas pedal causes it to upshift if the automatic linkage to the transmission doesn't do it.