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gearwheel

or gear wheel

[ geer-hweel, -weel ]

noun

  1. a wheel having teeth or cogs that engage with those of another wheel or part; cogwheel.


gearwheel

/ ˈɡɪəˌ·É¾±Ë±ô /

noun

  1. another name for gear
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of gearwheel1

First recorded in 1870–75; gear + wheel
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Among hundreds of men wearing turbans and topees at Karachi’s main train station, Muhammad Arshad stood out in his blue baseball cap with Rotary’s bright yellow gearwheel.

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The continual restlessness of his great mind can be seen in the numerous sheets on which he had sketched, say, a gearwheel mechanism, only to move swiftly on to a series of male nudes or a study of ocean waves without even changing paper.

As the optional link JK held the gearwheel centers always equidistant, the annular guide G was not used.

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First take the case of a small gearwheel, say 1 in. outside diameter and 1/16 in. thick, with twenty-four teeth.

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