gear wheel

Questions about gear wheel

What does gear wheel mean?

gear wheel means "a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion".

What is another word for gear wheel?

Close synonyms include gear, geared wheel, cogwheel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gear wheel a common word?

gear wheel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.