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Noun: gear wheel
  1. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
    - gear, geared wheel, cogwheel

Derived forms: gear wheels

Type of: wheel

Encyclopedia: Gear wheel

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