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gearwheel

gearwheel is the alternative spelling of gear wheel.

Meaning of gear wheel

Noun

gear wheel (plural gear wheels)

  1. A wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear.
    • Holonym: gearset
    Synonyms:
    cog wheel, cogwheel, cog, gear

Forms of gearwheel

pluralgearwheels

Origin of gearwheel

From gear + wheel.

Questions about gearwheel

What is gearwheel the alternative spelling of?
Gearwheel is the alternative spelling of gear wheel.

Words near gearwheel in the dictionary

  1. gearshifts
  2. gearstick
  3. gearsticks
  4. geartrain
  5. geartrains
  6. gearwheel
  7. gearwheels
  8. gearwork
  9. Geary
  10. Geary County
  11. Gearys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gearwheel (page history and authors); gear wheel (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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