cogwheel

See also: cog wheel

English

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Etymology

cog +‎ wheel

Noun

cogwheel (plural cogwheels)

  1. A gear wheel.
  2. (attributive) Something behaving in a jerky manner similar to a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine.

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Translations
gear wheel — see gear wheel
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