What is "geared"

Usage examples of "geared".

Here, Durand had paused and hummed a prolonged monotone, geared to the number of strokes that the robot would require to smash down the barrier.

Suppose Volkov succeeds, and Nova Terra is all geared up to fight an octopod invasion.

Donald Tremaine knew little about Sporeworld, other than that the reproductive ecology was geared to sporulation, with anywhere from a pair up to twelve or more contributors of the same species merging in a chaotic shuffling of what passed for genes before the spore was formed.

Sabin continued to underwind the clocks, carefully allowing their mechanisms to slow, their springs to expand, their hands to shift less sharply, so that time itself geared down to a lazier pace.

Frank was wearing a business suit, but the tie he wore seemed geared to spring as wella riot of daisies rampant on a pale green field.

New Amazonian day was inconvenient for creatures whose biorhythms were geared toward a twenty-four-hour cycle.

Jennifer wondered how a Foitani translator system that was geared to handling Spanglish would deal with suddenly getting its own tongue back.

It marshals a vast amount of scientific evidence, from physics to biology, and offers extensive arguments, all geared to objectively proving the holistic nature of the universe.

The trebuchets creaked as the Tartessians heaved around the crank handles of the geared windlasses.

As front man to the clubhouse he probably wasn't geared up too tight but the Dixies had a reputation for random violence.

There are the Armories which somebody set up and secretly geared to assist in the take-over of the Ship and the Caroline.

It was an instrument geared to react as she reacted, an anti-self which moved as she moved, balancing light on its prisms, shifting its target, offering its counter-blade.

Even the rematch with Spinks was bogged down in the arcane politics of big-money boxing -- and Pat Patterson, like all the others who had geared their lives to the fortunes of Muhammad Ali, understood that the rematch would have to be soon.

The Ancient Egyptian civil calendar year was geared to the Sothic year so that both would coincide on the same day/month position once every 1461 calendar years.

On a windowsill there stood a row of geography books that looked as though they were geared to classes in middle school, but the wall of another classroom held a chart of symbols that seemed to be intended for a high school chemistry class.