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Noun(1) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

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(1) Positive marital interactions function similar to a gear system in which a cogwheel transmits its movement smoothly to another cogwheel .(2) It consisted of a replica cogwheel with wire rope and was intended to symbolise the technology used in operating the sluices.(3) I found the first relatively sharp instrument I could lay my hands on - a metal cogwheel from my Meccano set, and got to work.(4) These are not going to be films with a strong social message about our capitalist society, of which the film industry is an important cogwheel , both financially and ideologically.(5) They drove a jackshaft, which took the power through gearing to the cogwheel , which engaged in the usual way with the rack rail.(6) The big cogwheel rotated exactly once every Roman mile, and at this point a small stone - a calculus - dropped into a box.(7) This shaft also carries the main cogwheel which engages with a rack between the running rails on the section where the steepness of the gradient calls for its use.(8) Nearby stood the remains of her two-cylinder steam engine and brass condenser - lengths of copper pipe, bronze valves, hollow masts and cogwheels littering the seabed.(9) Atoms, they contended, could never function as integral parts of cogwheels , gears or motors.(10) The cogwheels in my brain started churning as I scrubbed my hands under the tap.(11) The machinery in it looked oddly antiquated, as if someone had taken a lot of cogwheels and pistons and piled them together.(12) Instead of abandoning his bodybuilding dream, he went to a junkyard, got himself some industrial cogwheels and iron bars and somehow tinkered them into a weight set.(13) Allen paused, and she might as well have heard the cogwheels turning.(14) Maybe I am partial to this film because of its art design - I am a sucker for big cogwheels and jazz music.(15) This is the film where Chaplin gets sucked into the bowels of a machine, tightening screws as he get squeezed through a series of cogwheels .(16) The teeth on the train's cogwheels click and grind as you're pulled around dizzying loops and across viaducts.
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(1) cog-wheel
Synonyms
Noun
1. gear wheel
2. gear


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