Definition of worm gear Worm gear
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| 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 | ||
| cogwheel, gear wheel, geared wheel, gear a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | ||
| worm any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae | ||
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