What is "gear ratios"

Usage examples of "gear ratios".

It is not an adding but a multiplying, because, you see, the chain leaps across from gear to gear, and in terms of gear ratios you obtain five (_He indicates the five gears_.

He wanted a few more extra laps to adjust the suspension and gear ratios of this new car of his.

The engines had the power, but Poulter had miscalculated the gear ratios.

The driver of a Ferrari or Lamborghini who might have stopped beside him at a red light would never suspect that Pitt could blow their doors off from zero to a hundred miles an hour before their superior gear ratios and wind dynamics gave them the edge.

They found gear ratios that related to astronomical and calendar data.

I was almost totally ignorant about cars and listened stupefied as the others nodded knowingly while Marshall rambled on about torques, revs, gear ratios, mills, bores and strokes, overhead cams and rockers and tachs, and how it was really cool to rap your lakers in the parking lot of an A&amp.

She and the baby would sit in the old Hornet Rollie bad and Veronica would read little storybooks to Rita while Rollie walked around dusty lot after dusty lot with salesman after salesman, talking about compression and horsepower and hemi heads and gear ratios .

Their idea of a good party is an argument about gear ratios or the merits of overhead cams.

He did some rapid figuring on the gear ratios and picked out the spools in the equipment for them to use.

The enormous gear ratios and the small motors inside it made it a massive object indeed.

This was Strobel's third year at Monaco and he'd been steadily getting the hang of the gear ratios and the characteristic front-end problem as the weight came off past the Casino, and in practice he'd notched up a diabolical 1 min.

By changing gear ratios in the power-conversion equipment, he should be able to make the blaster operate at anywhere from twenty-five to fifty percent higher speeds than he had first planned.

Al was continually coming by Rathmann's to have his gear ratios changed.