any of the teeth or projections on the rim of a gearwheel or sprocket
2.
a gearwheel, esp a small one
3.
a person or thing playing a small part in a large organization or process
verbWord forms: cogs, cogging or cogged
4. (transitive) metallurgy
to roll (cast-steel ingots) to convert them into blooms
Word origin
C13: of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish kogge, Swedish kugge, Norwegian kug
cogged in American English
(kɑɡd)
adjective
having cogs
Word origin
[1815–25; cog1 + -ed3]This word is first recorded in the period 1815–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aggressive, coupon, pullout, trolley, welterweight-ed is a suffix forming adjectives from nouns. Other words that use the affix -ed include: bearded, monied, tender-hearted
Examples of 'cogged' in a sentence
cogged
Fixed on wing tips, they consist of ailerons which support massive cogged rotors.
Dijana Damljanović , Aleksandar Vitić 2007, 'Eksperimentalno ispitivanje rolerona u aerotunelu T-38 / Experimental testing of theroll aileron in the T-38 wind tunnel', Vojnotehnički Glasnikhttp://scindeks.ceon.rs/Article.aspx?artid=0042-84690704389D. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)