Gear (disambiguation)

A gear is a toothed wheel designed to transmit torque to another gear or toothed component.

Gear or gears may also refer to:

Mechanisms

• A selected combination of gears to achieve a particular gear ratio, for example with motor vehicle transmission
• Landing gear of an aircraft, referred to as gear in the aviation industry

Computing

• Gears (software) (formerly Google Gears), a browser plug-in from Google that enables development of off-line browser applications
• GEAR Software, an optical disk burning software company
• The image of a gear often symbolizes computer configuration (also known as settings, options, or preferences)
• Samsung Gear, Samsung smartwatch

Entertainment

• Gear (comics), a DC comics superhero
• Gear (Image Comics), written by Doug Tennapel and later made into a TV show called Catscratch
• Gear (magazine), an international men's magazine
• Gear (Static Shock), a DCAU superhero
• Gears (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Gears (Transformers), a character in the Transformers universe

Video games

• Gears, types of mecha in the Xenogears and Metal Gear (series) video games, as well as the Heavy Gear universe
• Gears, a type of biomechanical or mystical creature in the video games series Guilty Gear
• Gears of War The first title in the series
• Gears of War (series), by Epic Games
• Aircraft are known as Gears in Ace Online

People

• C. William Gear (1935– ), a British-American applied mathematician
• Dale Gear (1872–1951), an American Baseball player
• George Gear (1947– ), a former Australian politician
• Hosea Gear (1984– ), a New Zealand rugby player
• Jenny Gear (1982– ), a Canadian singer
• John H. Gear (1825–1900), a United States politician
• Kathleen O'Neal Gear (1954– ), an American writer
• Michael Gear (bishop) (1934– ), a former Bishop of Doncaster
• Simon Gear (1974– ), an English cricketer
• Tom Gear (1949– ), an American politician
• Walter Gear, a British astrophysicist
• William Gear (1915–1997), a Scottish painter
• W. Michael Gear (1955– ), an American writer

Other

• USS Gear (ARS-34), a U.S. Navy ship
• Gear, a term for equipment or apparel, particularly for outdoor performance equipment and apparel, motorcycle safety clothing, musical equipment and cargo
• Gear, a UK slang for illegal narcotics
• GEAR (Growth, Employment and Redistribution) is a neo-liberal strategy of the South-African Government from 1996 to 2000.
• GEAR (Gender Equality Architecture Reform) Campaign, a campaign to create the UN Women organization
• Music gear, a term for instruments and sound reinforcement equipment

See also

• Camping gear
• Gearing (disambiguation)
• Top Gear (disambiguation)
• Geared or gearing, a term used in ship transport to indicate whether a vessel has cranes on board
• All pages beginning with "gear"
• All pages with titles containing gear