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Bearings

Bearings are machine elements with the special property of restricting movement between moving parts to only the intended motion or direction.

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Bearings

cage deformation

Machine tools; Bearings

Improperly installed or dropped bearing.

ball

Machine tools; Bearings

A spherical rolling element.

Annular Bearing Engineers Committee (ABEC)

Machine tools; Bearings

Used as a prefix for tolerance grades of bearings as set up by this committee.

American Bearing Manufacturers Association (ABMA)

Machine tools; Bearings

This is a non-profit association consisting of American manufacturers of anti-friction bearings, spherical plain bearings or major components thereof. The purpose of ABMA is to define national and ...

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

Machine tools; Bearings

The American National Standards Institute is a private organization that identifies industrial standards and coordinates their development. Many ANSI standards relate to safe design, performance and ...

angular contact bearing

Machine tools; Bearings

A type of ball bearing whose internal clearances and ball race locations result in a definite contact angle between the races and the balls when the bearing is in use.

ambient temperature

Machine tools; Bearings

The surrounding temperature. Note that ambient temperature is not necessarily the same as atmospheric temperature.

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