geared wheel

Thesaurus

Noun

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geared wheel - a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motioncogwheel, gear, gear wheelbevel gear, pinion and crown wheel, pinion and ring gear - gears that mesh at an anglecog, sprocket - tooth on the rim of gear wheelescape wheel - gear that engages a rocking leverpinion - a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rackepicyclic gear, planet gear, planet wheel, planetary gear - an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic trainrack and pinion - a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack; converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa)spur gear, spur wheel - gear wheels that mesh in the same planesun gear - the central gear in an epicyclic traintooth - one of a number of uniform projections on a gearwheel - a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)worm gear - gear consisting of a shaft with screw thread (the worm) that meshes with a toothed wheel (the worm wheel); changes the direction of the axis of rotary motionworm wheel - gear with the thread of a worm