"second gear" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-second gear.ogg Forms: second gears [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} second gear (countable and uncountable, plural second gears)
  1. The second of the available gears in a transmission or other gearbox. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: second Derived forms: second-gear valuation Related terms: downshift, upshift Translations (second lowest gear): segona [feminine] (Catalan), kakkosvaihde (Finnish), kakkonen (Finnish), toinen vaihde (Finnish), втора брзина (vtora brzina) [feminine] (Macedonian), drugi bieg [masculine] (Polish), втора́я переда́ча (vtorája peredáča) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-second_gear-en-noun-g9Yo84W6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 84 16 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 86 14 Coordinate_terms: low gear, first gear, third gear, fourth gear, fifth gear, ;, top gear, overdrive, ;, angel gear, neutral Disambiguation of 'second lowest gear': 91 9
  2. (idiomatic, figuratively) Mediocre, sluggish performance. Tags: countable, figuratively, idiomatic, uncountable Translations (mediocre performance): vajaateho (Finnish), drugi bieg [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-second_gear-en-noun-GSgZ1ppt Categories (other): English terms with collocations, Terms with Macedonian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'mediocre performance': 1 99

Inflected forms

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