geared wheel

Questions about geared wheel

What does geared wheel mean?

geared 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 geared wheel?

Close synonyms include gear, gear 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 geared wheel a common word?

geared 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.