[
UK
/kˈɒɡwiːl/
]
NOUN
- a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
How To Use cogwheel In A Sentence
- And there are almost as many domestic tourists reaching every nook and cranny of the country by a seamless transport system, its elements being trains - cogwheels, funiculars included - cable cars, buses and trams.
- 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.
- Atoms, they contended, could never function as integral parts of cogwheels, gears or motors.
- In other cases akinesia, dyskinesia, waxy flexibility, and cogwheeling may occur instead of or in addition to the classic rigidity.
- A few cogwheels in Blaise Pascal's seventeenth century calculator perform the entire procedure of addition better and faster than a human mind.
- 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.
- I like the look of the book and would find the discussion of cogwheel trains interesting, especially were I back in the 2nd grade. Mountain-Climbing Trains « Awful Library Books
- If you help the tax payer, he will spend money which in turn will begin the cogwheel of business. The Last Word on the Tea Party « Gerry Canavan
- 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
- Destiny was not to be opposed and the cogwheels that were set in motion could not be stopped, not even by him.