geared wheel
Noun
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A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion (synset 103435461)
is a type of: wheel - a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)subtypes:
- bevel gear, pinion and crown wheel, pinion and ring gear - gears that mesh at an angle
- escape wheel - gear that engages a rocking lever
- pinion - a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
- epicyclic gear, planet gear, planet wheel, planetary gear - an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train
- rack and pinion - a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack; converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa)
- spur gear, spur wheel - gear wheels that mesh in the same plane
- sun gear - the central gear in an epicyclic train
- worm gear - gear consisting of a shaft with screw thread (the worm) that meshes with a toothed wheel (the worm wheel); changes the direction of the axis of rotary motion
- worm wheel - gear with the thread of a worm
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