Cogwheel

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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