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cogwheels

cogwheels is the plural 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.

Questions about cogwheels

What is cogwheels the plural of?
Cogwheels is the plural of cogwheel.

Words near cogwheels in the dictionary

  1. Cogwell
  2. Cogwells
  3. cogwheel
  4. cogwheeled
  5. cogwheeling
  6. cogwheels
  7. cogwood
  8. COH
  9. COHA
  10. cohab
  11. cohabit

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