Usually means: Rotating spheres reduce friction, load.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word ball bearing:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. ball bearing: Merriam-Webster
  2. ball bearing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ball bearing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ball bearing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ball bearing: Vocabulary.com
  6. ball-bearing: Wordnik
  7. ball bearing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ball bearing: Wiktionary
  9. ball bearing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ball bearing: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ball-bearing, ball bearing: Dictionary.com
  12. Ball Bearing (advertisement), Ball-bearing, Ball bearing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. ball bearing: Rhymezone
  14. ball bearing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ball bearing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ball bearing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. ball bearing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. ball bearing: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Banjo Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ball bearing: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ball-bearing, ball bearing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ball bearing: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ball bearing: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ball Bearing: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  3. BEARING, BALL: Power Engineering

(Note: See ball_bearings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ball bearing)

noun:  (engineering) A bearing assembly which uses spherical bearing balls as the rolling elements.
noun:  (loosely, often) An individual spherical ball, usually made of steel or other hard material, suitable for use in a ball-based rolling element bearing.

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