Meaning

2 senses

  1. A gear wheel.

    Near-synonyms: cog, gear (often synonymous)

  2. (attributive)Something behaving in a jerky manner similar to a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine.

More definitions
  • a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

Forms

plural: cogwheels
Singularcogwheel
Pluralcogwheels

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
gearB2gear wheelcoggearwheel
Close in meaning
  • a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion:geargear wheelgeared wheel

Word family

2 related words
Derivedcogwheeledcogwheeling

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cognatecognitiveC2cognizantcohabitationcoherenceB2coherentB2coherently

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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