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Meanings of gearwheel in inglés

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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.

Usage of gearwheel in inglés
1
First take the case of a small gearwheel, say 1 in.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
2
The gearwheel is centermost, supported on an adjustable cradle like a miniature music stand.
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3
There are duplicates of the gearwheel and its brethren, etched in brass for testing purposes.
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4
That's when Rana pays proper attention to the gearwheel, the one she has been working on.
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5
The same person who had thrown a handful of marbles against the gearwheel in the watermill.
Mister Slaughter
6
She already knows every scratch and chip of that gearwheel like an old friend or ancient, bitter adversary.
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7
When the first barrel is fired, you cock the striker again and a gearwheel revolves the second barrel into position.
Mister Slaughter
8
And there is the Mechanism itself, placed on the bench on the far side of the gearwheel she is working on.
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9
Rana has been spending the last three weeks working with microscopically precise tools on the restoration of a single bronze gearwheel.
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10
If the cogs on the gearwheels do not interact, the machine can not work.
A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects
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Even the bridge sagged under those toothed gearwheels; the arches of the bridge will break, Granny Katarina's china is nothing to that.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
12
Then her gaze falls on the other gearwheels, in their plastic boxes, and she sees the same brittle corrosion afflicting them all.
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13
He tossed and turned in the first bout of what would be a nightlong grappling with the hot gearwheels of his brain.
Speaks the Nightbird
14
There are other gearwheels which have already been removed from the device for restoration, sealed in plastic boxes and racked according to coded labels.
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But by then she no longer thinks of anything at all, except the endless meshing of beautiful bronze gearwheels, moving the heavens for all eternity.
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Frequent collocations
Gearwheel through the time