scope:

This part of ISO 1122 contains the part of the international vocabulary of gears which is devoted solely to geometrical definitions of worm gears.

It gives, for each of the geometrical terms relative to gears, a standard definition which will be valid internationally, the corresponding term being chosen as far as possible in each language in such a way as to be a direct reflection of the meaning of the definition.

NOTE Since the choice of the corresponding term can only be partially fulfilled in any particular language, due to the necessity of respecting certain established conventions, it is advisable, as far as translation into other languages is concerned, to refer always to the meaning of the definition itself, rather than to a simple transposition of the original term.