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Cogwheel

Cogwheel \Cog"wheel`\, n. A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

Wiktionary
cogwheel

alt. 1 A gear wheel 2 (When used attributively) Something behaving in similar, jerky, manner as a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine n. 1 A gear wheel 2 (When used attributively) Something behaving in similar, jerky, manner as a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine

WordNet
cogwheel

n. a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion [syn: gear, gear wheel]

Wikipedia
Cogwheel (disambiguation)

Cogwheel may refer to:

  • Cogwheel, a gear - a toothed wheel designed to transmit torque to another gear or toothed component.
  • Cogwheel (neurology), a sign of Hypokinesia

Usage examples of "cogwheel".

The teeth of a cogwheel showed themselves and rose higher, soon the whole wheel was visible, it was as if some enormous force were squeezing the Designer so that there was no longer room for the wheel, the wheel moved up till it came to the very edge of the Designer, fell down, rolled along the sand a little on its rim, and then lay flat.

The invaders--unwashed, unshaven, red-eyed--wore blue coveralls with golden cogwheel patches.

They were so fully human, with no slightest trace of genetic modification, that Sam hardly needed their shocked recoil, nor their blue coveralls and golden cogwheel patches, to tell that they were Engineers.

Many of the marchers, but by no means all, wore the blue coveralls and cogwheel patches of Engineers.

The left breast was embroidered with a golden cogwheel of a size that could be covered with a palm.

His cogwheel was surrounded by a second, larger one to mark his position in the technician corps.

He sounded like he was giving orders, and in the center of his ornamental cogwheel he had pinned a robot the length of his thumb.

The cogwheel on her breast was pierced by a staff around which twined what seemed to be a vine.

The Baron still wore a twitching robot pinned within the circle of his cogwheel badge.

To his right, a freshly painted cogwheel gleamed against the metal of the copter.

Grindelwald, passengers were required to transfer to a cogwheel railway.

Hotel Derby and Grand Hotel Regina, which flanked the Grindelwald train station, as he crossed the platform toward the cogwheel train.

Then there is a series of two gondolas and a cable car from the town of Kriens, or you can take the cogwheel railway from the town of Alpnachstad.

The final cable car ride up and the cogwheel railway each approach the summit from different sides of the mountain.

The cable car and the cogwheel railway arrive and depart beneath the Hotel Bellevue, which is partly recessed within the mountain.