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cog-wheel

cog-wheel is the alternative spelling of cogwheel.

Meaning of cogwheel

Noun

cogwheel (plural cogwheels)

  1. A gear wheel.
    • Near-synonyms: cog, gear (often synonymous)
  2. (attributive) Something behaving in a jerky manner similar to a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine.

Forms of cog-wheel

pluralcog-wheels

Questions about cog-wheel

What is cog-wheel the alternative spelling of?
Cog-wheel is the alternative spelling of cogwheel.

Words near cog-wheel in the dictionary

  1. cog mills
  2. cog railway
  3. cog railways
  4. cog wheel
  5. cog wheels
  6. cog-wheel
  7. cog-wheels
  8. cogalois
  9. Cogan
  10. Cogan syndrome
  11. Cogan's syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cog-wheel (page history and authors); cogwheel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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