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worm drives

worm drives is the plural of worm drive.

Meaning of worm drive

Noun

worm drive (plural worm drives)

  1. A gear arrangement consisting of a screw (the worm) whose thread meshes with a gear wheel (the worm wheel) to turn the direction of drive through a right angle, typically with a large (1:10 to 1:60) speed reduction and similar torque increase.
    • Meronyms: (the screw component) worm, worm screw; (the wheel component) worm wheel, worm gear
    Synonyms:
    worm and wheel

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Noun capitalized: WORM drives

WORM drives

  1. (plural) plural of WORM drive

Questions about worm drives

What is worm drives the plural of?
Worm drives is the plural of worm drive.
What part of speech is worm drives?
Worm drives is a noun.

Words near worm drives in the dictionary

  1. worm castle
  2. worm castles
  3. worm casts
  4. worm charming
  5. worm drive
  6. worm drives
  7. worm fence
  8. worm fences
  9. worm fever
  10. worm fevers
  11. worm food

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Adapted from Wiktionary: worm drives (page history and authors); WORM drives (page history and authors); worm drive (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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