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Meanings of gear wheel 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.

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      Usage of gear wheel in English
      1
      The display shows the toolbar, with the time frozen, and a perpetual spinning gear wheel.
      Wired
      2
      There was a little clicking sound, as the youth moved some gear wheel on his gun.
      Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; Or, Daring Adventures in Eleph...
      3
      He did not need the knife-orany tools, for that matter-toremove the small lock from the central gear wheel.
      Time After Time
      4
      A is a collar which encircles the spindle, and has formed on its outer face a bevel gear wheel, B.
      Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 / ...
      5
      The tooth of a gear wheel is a cast iron spring, and if only treated as would be a spring, many less would be broken.
      Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
      6
      Bronze is used for bearings, bushings, thrust washers, brackets and gear wheels.
      Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting / Electric, Forge and Thermit ...
      7
      He went here and there upon the barbette, testing the various levers and gear wheels of the gun.
      Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon; Or, The Longest Shots on Record
      8
      Gear Wheels and Parts of Models.
      Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 /...
      9
      The garage was filled with bike-related parts, including various gear wheels, tools, his training bike and the bike itself.
      Reuters
      10
      Laurie Rainey looked around, her head slowly racheting as if her neck and spine were connected by gear wheels.
      Stinger
      11
      They were full of thousands of minuscule ratchets and gear wheels and ossified springs, like the innards of inconceivably tiny clocks.
      The Scar
      12
      Immediately afterwards, he returned, with incredible ease, to his technical challenges: gear wheels, and the problem of power transmission to the rear wheel.
      Reuters
      13
      The engines in the centre car being placed transversely the transmission is more direct, the engines driving the propellers through two gear wheels only.
      British Airships, Past, Present, and Future
      14
      It occurred to her that these absent-minded glances with nothing jarring about them lubricated the gear wheels of the human bustling, like machine oil.
      Metro 2034
      15
      The gear wheels are, as shown, efficiently guarded, and provision is made to start or stop the machine from any position on both sides.
      The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth
      16
      15,000 Crank Shafts and 10,000 Gear Wheels of this steel now running prove its superiority over other Steel Castings.
      Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 /...
      Translations for gear wheel
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      engranaje