Definition of gear wheel Gear wheel
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What does gear wheel mean?
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| gear wheel - a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | ||
| gear, geared wheel, cogwheel | ||
| 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 | ||
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gear wheel
A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.
