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Cogwheel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A toothed wheel.

n. One of a set of cogged wheels within a mechanism.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A gear wheel

n. Something behaving in similar, jerky, manner as a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of gearing.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A wheel having teeth or cogs, used in transmitting motion by engaging the cogs of another similar wheel or of a rack; a geared wheel, or a gear.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

Word Usage

"The mighty horizontal cogwheel had thick wooden spikes which in turn fitted into the crevices of another vertical cog, and these wheels put four heavy beams in motion."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

wheel

Cross Reference

cog-wheel respiration

Variant

gearing

Hyponym

pinion worm wheel planet wheel rack and pinion planet gear epicyclic gear sun gear spur wheel planetary gear worm gear

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

wheel gear wheel gear lantern worm wheel cog

Same Context

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