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Meanings of cogwheel in English

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A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.

      engrenagem
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      Portuguese
      roda dentada
      Catalan
      engranatge
      Spanish
      engranaje
      Wikidata

      Rotating wheel having teeth which mesh with another cogwheel or toothed part, used to transmit torque, convert rotation to translation or rarely other purposes.

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            Usage of cogwheel in English
            1
            Both patients developed increased tone and cogwheel rigidity, but neither developed choreoathetosis.
            Pubmed
            2
            Guess the Miller of the Dee dropped a cogwheel into his wheat.
            Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island
            3
            On detailed examination, the patient was observed to have symmetrical bradykinesia and cogwheel rigidity of limbs.
            Pubmed
            4
            Ianto turned and headed for the cogwheel door, Jack following as he talked to the girl.
            The undertaker's gift
            5
            They have very powerful engines and a cogwheel arrangement, the line making a zigzag up the mountain-side.
            Round About the Carpathians
            6
            Outside I saw a bird with a green and brown stomach perching on a large, rusty cogwheel.
            Conquest of the Useless
            7
            The railway has a slope of 48 percent and is the steepest cogwheel railway in the world.
            Alpine for You
            8
            The chain ran up over a huge wooden cogwheel mounted on an iron axle anchored in solid stone.
            Dragons of autumn twilight
            9
            We walked in the town and took the cogwheel railway down to Ouchy and walked beside the lake.
            A Farewell to Arms
            10
            He is spontaneous and funny because he is unaware of the monstrosity of which he is the main cogwheel.
            Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema
            11
            Between the rails runs a third broad and massive rail provided with teeth, which gear with a cogwheel under the locomotive.
            Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
            12
            If you look through a magnifying glass at the cogwheel of the dredge you can see the forger's initials in looking-glass writing.
            Travels With My Aunt
            13
            Above him, the cogwheel turned faster and faster, the freed chain rushing through it as if rejoicing in its release from bondge.
            Dragons of autumn twilight
            14
            When he crawled out, with a greasy cogwheel in his hand, he was soaked with perspiration and his overalls were stained by oil.
            The Girl from Keller's
            15
            You wish man to play the part of a magnet; that is not enough, I want him to play the part of a cogwheel.
            The Malady of the Century
            16
            A thick wall and the 'cogwheel' sign were sensitive markers of acute disease, whereas a thin wall and 'beads-on-a-string' sign were indicators of chronic disease.
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            engranaje
            Cogwheel through the time