Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A toothed wheel.
- n. One of a set of cogged wheels within a mechanism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A wheel having teeth or cogs, used in transmitting motion by engaging the cogs of another similar wheel or of a rack; a geared wheel, or a gear. The direction of the transmitted motion is determined by the position and angle of the circle of cogs. Cog-wheels include rag- or sprocket- and lantern-wheels, and are classified as spur-, bevel-, and crown-wheels, according to the position of the cogs. See these words.
Wiktionary
- n. A gear wheel
- n. Something behaving in similar, jerky, manner as a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See
Illust. of gearing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
Examples
“The mighty horizontal cogwheel had thick wooden spikes which in turn fitted into the crevices of another vertical cog, and these wheels put four heavy beams in motion.”
“If you help the tax payer, he will spend money which in turn will begin the cogwheel of business.”
“I like the look of the book and would find the discussion of cogwheel trains interesting, especially were I back in the 2nd grade.”
“The cogwheel railway climbs 4,550 feet through the Bernese Alps and takes passengers to an altitude of 11,225 feet to Europe's highest train station, offering views of the alpine landscape.”
The Wall Street Journal: Swiss Franc's Climb Puts a Chill on Tourism
“On the second day in Switzerland we took a scenic cogwheel up to the snowcapped Jungfrau, one of the highest peaks in the Swiss Alps.”
“Louvered windows, giving onto the rear garden, are operated by an industrial cogwheel.”
“Angolatwo equal horizontal bands of red (top) and black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete (in the style of a hammer and sickle)”
“Burmared with a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing 14, white, five-pointed stars encircling a cogwheel containing a stalk of rice; the 14 stars represent the seven administrative divisions and seven states”
“Flag description: two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete (in the style of a hammer and sickle) EconomyEconomyoverview: Angola's high growth rate is driven by its oil sector, with record oil prices and rising petroleum production.”
“Flag description: red with a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing 14, white, five-pointed stars encircling a cogwheel containing a stalk of rice; the 14 stars represent the seven administrative divisions and seven states”
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Wheel
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cosmogyral, alphabetical, spyglass, cogwheel, eyelids, opening, magnanimous, anglican, infrared, spectacular, lithograph, echinacea and 8 more...
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