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