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Leibniz wheel

Leibniz wheel noun: a cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel, can be used in the calculating engine of a class of mechanical calculators.

Noun

Leibniz wheel (plural Leibniz wheels)

  1. A cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel, can be used in the calculating engine of a class of mechanical calculators.

Forms of Leibniz wheel

pluralLeibniz wheels

Origin of Leibniz wheel

Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1673.

Questions about Leibniz wheel

What does Leibniz wheel mean?
Leibniz wheel means a cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel, can be used in the calculating engine of a class of mechanical calculators.
What part of speech is Leibniz wheel?
Leibniz wheel is a noun.
What is the plural of Leibniz wheel?
The plural of Leibniz wheel is Leibniz wheels.

Words near Leibniz wheel in the dictionary

  1. Leibnitzian
  2. Leibnitzianism
  3. Leibniz
  4. Leibniz algebra
  5. Leibniz algebras
  6. Leibniz wheel
  7. Leibniz wheels
  8. Leibniz's law
  9. Leibnizian
  10. Leibnizianism
  11. Leibold

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