Cogwheel

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  • noun. A toothed wheel.
  • noun. One of a set of cogged wheels within a mechanism.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of gearing.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A gear wheel
  • noun. Something behaving in similar, jerky, manner as a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. 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."
    cross-reference
    cog-wheel respiration  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wheel  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    bevel gear  epicyclic gear  escape wheel  pinion  pinion and crown wheel  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ahistorical  beamy  bootjack  cadaveric  cataleptic  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Hydromatic  automatic transmission  cog  differential  differential gear  
    variant
    gearing  
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