cog•wheel
We found 6 definitions of cogwheel from 5 different sources.
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cogwheel - a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | ||
gear, gear wheel, geared wheel | ||
wheel a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines) | ||
bevel gear, pinion and crown wheel, pinion and ring gear gears that mesh at an angle | ||
cog, sprocket tooth on the rim of gear wheel | ||
escape wheel gear that engages a rocking lever | ||
pinion a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack | ||
epicyclic gear, planet gear, planet wheel, planetary gear an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train | ||
rack and pinion a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack; converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa) | ||
spur gear, spur wheel gear wheels that mesh in the same plane | ||
sun gear the central gear in an epicyclic train | ||
tooth a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it" | ||
worm gear gear consisting of a shaft with screw thread (the worm) that meshes with a toothed wheel (the worm wheel); changes the direction of the axis of rotary motion |