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ball bearing

–noun Machinery.
1. a bearing consisting of a number of hard balls running in grooves in the surfaces of two concentric rings, one of which is mounted on a rotating or oscillating shaft or the like.
2. any of the balls so used.

Origin:
1880–85


ball-bearing, adjective
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ball bearing  
n.   Abbr. bb
  1. A friction-reducing bearing consisting essentially of a ring-shaped track containing freely revolving hard metal balls against which a rotating shaft or other part turns.

  2. A hard ball used in such a bearing.

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