piñón

Definitions of piñón
  1. noun
    a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
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    type of:
    rueda dentada
    a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
  2. noun
    edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America
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