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n. ''(Machinery, industrial equipment)'' The final gear train between the transmission and the ground. In automotive and heavy equipment, this is the differential gear and axle assembly that turns the wheels or track sprockets.
Usage examples of "final drive".
This was one of the countless combinations presenting themselves for review: a strike upwards with the right arm and a stab downwards with the right foot, leaving it for the sudden vacuum in the induction manifold to kick the automatic shift into low and send thrust into the final drive.
It was a long lonely drive under cloudless skies, prefiguring in a way the final drive I took with Jamie.
A gentle vibration quivered through the superdread-nougnt Alois Saint-Just as Engineering ran her final drive test, and her captain watched his read-outs with profound satisfaction.
Andrea Jaruwalski said, and the missiles thirteen million kilometers short of Fifth Fleet suddenly brought their final drive stages on-line.
He was remembering what Karanja had done, up there on the Mara, hoping to turn them towards us before the trucks came down off the escarpment and began the final drive to the killing ground.
That final drive ratio of about 40:1 gives a lot of traction and a lot of engine braking.
The crowd came to its feet, sensing this final drive might mean victory for the Polaris crew.