Words Like COGWHEEL

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4 Alternative Words Similar to cogwheel

1 Gear Noun      Synonym Words Like Gear
2 Wheel Noun      Synonym Words Like Wheel
3 Gearing Noun      Variant Words Like Gearing
4 Pinion Noun      Hyponym Words Like Pinion

7 definitions of cogwheel

1 A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of gearing.
2 a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
3 A toothed wheel.
4 One of a set of cogged wheels within a mechanism.
5 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.
6 A gear wheel
7 Something behaving in similar, jerky, manner as a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine
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