"roller bearing" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: roller bearings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} roller bearing (plural roller bearings)
  1. A bearing in which the load is carried by round (e.g. cylindrical or spherical) elements (rollers). Wikidata QID: Q1335987 Hypernyms: bearing, component, part
    Sense id: en-roller_bearing-en-noun-en:Q1335987 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 50 50 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 50 50
  2. A bearing in which the load is carried by round (e.g. cylindrical or spherical) elements (rollers).
    (especially) Such a bearing with cylindrical rollers rather than spherical ones (balls).
    Wikidata QID: Q1335987, Q18332303 Tags: especially Hypernyms: bearing, component, part Coordinate_terms: ball bearing
    Sense id: en-roller_bearing-en-noun-en:Q13359871 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 50 50 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: rollered [adjective], roller table Translations (type of bearing): vierintälaakeri (Finnish), rullalaakeri (Finnish), ро́ликовый подши́пник (rólikovyj podšípnik) [masculine] (Russian), rullager (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'type of bearing': 50 50

Inflected forms

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