cogwheel

See also: cog wheel

English

Alternative forms

• cog wheel
• cog-wheel

Etymology

From cog +‎ wheel.

Noun

cogwheel (plural cogwheels)

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

Synonyms

• gear wheel
• cog
• gear

Hypernyms

• wheel

Derived terms

• cogwheeled
• cogwheeling

 

Translations

gear wheel — see gear wheel