Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rack_and_pinion

1 sense of rack and pinion

Sense 1
rack and pinion -- (a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack; converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa))
       => gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel -- (a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion)