gear wheel

Noun gear wheel has 1 sense

• gear wheel(n = noun.artifact) cogwheel, gear, geared wheel - a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion;
has particulars: bevel gear, pinion and crown wheel, pinion and ring gear, escape wheel, pinion, epicyclic gear, planet gear, planet wheel, planetary gear, rack and pinion, spur gear, spur wheel, sun gear, worm gear, worm wheel
has parts: cog, sprocket, tooth
is a kind of wheel