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."