rack and pinion in English

adjective
1
denoting a mechanism, as for a car steering system, using a fixed cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a smaller cog.
Together with the engine-speed-sensing rack-and-pinion power steering, the suspension is designed to provide unerring road feel while quietly isolating the passenger cabin from unwanted noise, vibration and harshness.

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1. Rack and pinion sieve adjustment mechanism

2. Rack and pinion mechanism, accessor, and magnetic tape device

3. Rack and pinion steering gear with automatic adjustment of the thrust element

4. Rack mounting auxiliary adjusting apparatus used for rack and pinion climbing vertical ship lift

5. The Mount Washington Cog Railway, also known as the Cog, is the world's first mountain-climbing Cog railway (rack-and-pinion railway)

6. The energy-saving Varioserv adjustable vane pump and steering column, Servotronic rack-and-pinion power steering and Dynamic Steering are provided by ZF Lenksysteme.

7. The distance between the object and a lens (6, 111) of the eyepiece can be adjusted in the deployed configuration, for example by way of a rack and pinion assembly (15, 17, 108, 109).

8. The Culdee Fell Railway, a narrow-gauge rack-and-pinion mountain railway, runs from the summit of Culdee Fell down to Kirk Machan where it links to the standard-gauge line from Kildane to Peel Godred

9. The 15th century also saw the introduction of Cranked rack-and-pinion devices, called cranequins, which were fitted to the crossbow's stock as a means of exerting even more force while spanning the missile weapon (see right)

10. The RepRap Snappy is able to create 73% of its own parts by volume with a design that eliminates as many of the non 3D printed parts as possible including belts and bearings which are replaced with a rack and pinion system.

11. NEWTON & CO., LondonA mahogany-body Biunial magic lantern with lacquered brass lens sections, a pair of brass bound lenses each with rack and pinion focusing and a black enamelled chimney, lens panel engraved Newton & Co., Opticians to the Queen, 3 Fleet St., Temple Bar, London.