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cogwheel

cog·wheel
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [kog-hweel, -weel]
    • /ˈkɒgˌʰwil, -ˌwil/
    • /ˈkɒɡ.wiːl/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [kog-hweel, -weel]
    • /ˈkɒgˌʰwil, -ˌwil/

Definitions of cogwheel word

  • noun cogwheel a wheel with a rim notched into teeth, which mesh with those of another wheel or of a rack to transmit or receive motion 3
  • noun cogwheel (not in technical use) a gearwheel, especially one having teeth of hardwood or metal inserted into slots. 1
  • noun cogwheel A gear wheel. 1
  • noun cogwheel (When used attributively) Something behaving in similar, jerky, manner as a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine. 0

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Origin of cogwheel

First appearance:

before 1375
One of the 22% oldest English words
late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at cog1, wheel

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Parts of speech for Cogwheel

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

cogwheel popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 68% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for cogwheel

noun cogwheel

  • prong — one of the pointed tines of a fork.
  • wheel — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
  • gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
  • transmission — the act or process of transmitting.
  • tooth — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.

Top questions with cogwheel

  • what is cogwheel rigidity?
  • what is a cogwheel?

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