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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 joints
  2. cog mill
  3. cog mills
  4. cog railway
  5. cog railways
  6. cog wheel
  7. cog wheels
  8. cog-wheel
  9. cog-wheels
  10. cogalois
  11. Cogan

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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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