first gear

English

Noun

first gear (plural first gears)

1. The first gear of a transmission or other gearbox, which usually is the one that provides the lowest output speed and greatest mechanical advantage, except in setups in which there is a granny gear.

   Synonym: first (elliptical)

   Coordinate terms: creeper gear, granny gear; second gear, third gear, fourth gear, fifth gear; top gear, overdrive; angel gear, neutral

   Near-synonym: low gear (synonymous except when a creeper gear is present)

Translations

lowest gear of a transmission

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第一檔／第一档 (dìyīdàng)

• Finnish: ykkönen (fi), ykkösvaihde
• French: première (fr) f, première vitesse f
• Galician: primeira f
• Hungarian: egyes (hu), egyes fokozat, egyes sebesség
• Icelandic: fyrsti (is) gír
• Interlingua: prime velocitate
• Irish: céad ghiar
• Italian: prima (it) f, prima marcia f
• Japanese: ローギア (rō gia)
• Macedonian: прва брзина f (prva brzina)
• Portuguese: primeira marcha f
• Romanian: prima viteză f
• Russian: пе́рвая переда́ча f (pérvaja peredáča)
• Swedish: etta (sv) c (almost always definite: ettan), ettans växel c

See also

• downshift
• upshift