spur gear

1. 1.

   gear wheels that mesh in the same plane

   Synonymsspur wheel

   Broadergear

Questions about spur gear

What does spur gear mean?

spur gear means "gear wheels that mesh in the same plane".

What is another word for spur gear?

Close synonyms include spur wheel. 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 spur gear a common word?

spur gear is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.