cogwheel

3 definitions found

cogwheel - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cogwheel \Cog"wheel`\, n.
     A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of
     Gearing.
     [1913 Webster]

cogwheel - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cogwheel
      n 1: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in
           order to change the speed or direction of transmitted
           motion [syn: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel,
           cogwheel]

cogwheel - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "cogwheel":
     Hydromatic, automatic transmission, differential,
     differential gear, freewheel, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing,
     gearshift, gearwheel, high, intermediate, low, neutral, overdrive,
     rack, reverse, standard transmission, stick shift, synchromesh,
     transmission