"gear change" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gear changes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gear change (plural gear changes)
  1. (automotive) A mechanism which changes gears in a vehicle. Categories (topical): Automotive Derived forms: truck driver's gear change Related terms: gear-changing, gearbox Translations (mechanism which changes gears in a car): 變速桿 (Chinese Mandarin), 变速杆 (biànsùgān) (Chinese Mandarin), vaihteenvalitsin (Finnish), cambio [masculine] (Italian), girskift [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), girskifte [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), girskift [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), girskifte [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), cambio de marchas [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-gear_change-en-noun-vK6hTMah Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles

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