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Pinion Gear

A small diameter gear used in a gear drive train. It has a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a much larger gear wheel or a toothed rod (rack), and is used in rack-and-pinion steering and for speed reduction with an increase in power.

Phaeton      Piston