Usually means: Supports rotating shafts, reduces friction.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. journal bearing: Merriam-Webster
  2. journal bearing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. journal bearing: Vocabulary.com
  4. journal-bearing: Wordnik
  5. journal bearing: Wiktionary
  6. Journal bearing, journal bearing: Dictionary.com
  7. Journal bearing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. journal bearing: Rhymezone
  9. journal bearing: FreeDictionary.org
  10. journal bearing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. journal bearing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. journal bearing: Encyclopedia

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. BEARING, JOURNAL: Power Engineering

(Note: See journal_bearings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (journal bearing)

noun:  (engineering) A simple bearing in which part of the outer surface of a cylindrical shaft, the “journal”, slides on the inner surface of a cylindrical hole, with no rolling elements.

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