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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
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.