ball bearing

See also: ballbearing

English

A ball bearing

Noun

ball bearing (plural ball bearings)

1. (engineering) A bearing assembly which uses spherical bearing balls as the rolling elements.
2. (loosely, often) An individual spherical ball, usually made of steel or other hard material, suitable for use in a ball-based rolling element bearing. In precise usage, each such ball is called a bearing ball or simply ball, and the entire bearing is called the ball bearing.

Coordinate terms

• roller bearing

Derived terms

• ball bearing retainer
• caged ball bearing

Translations

bearing assembly with spherical balls

• Armenian: գնդառանցքակալ (hy) (gndaṙancʻkʻakal), գնդավոր առանցքակալ (gndavor aṙancʻkʻakal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滾珠軸承／滚珠轴承 (zh) (gǔnzhū zhóuchéng)

• Czech: kuličkové ložisko n
• Danish: kugleleje
• Dutch: kogellager (nl) n
• Estonian: kuullaager
• Finnish: kuulalaakeri (fi)
• French: roulement mécanique m, roulement à billes (fr) m
• German: Kugellager (de) n
• Hungarian: golyóscsapágy (hu)
• Icelandic: kúlulega f
• Japanese: 玉軸受 (たまじくうけ, tamajikuuke), ボールベアリング (bōrubearingu)
• Latvian: lodīšu gultnis
• Navajo: béésh máazoo
• Norman: rouôl'lie à balles f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: kulelager n
• Polish: łożysko kulkowe n
• Portuguese: rolamento (pt) m, rolimã m (Brazil)
• Russian: шарикоподши́пник (ru) m (šarikopodšípnik)
• Spanish: cojinete (es) m, rodamiento m
• Swedish: kullager (sv)
• Tagalog: bolitas