"cogwheel" meaning in All languages combined

See cogwheel on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cogwheel.wav Forms: cogwheels [plural]
Etymology: From cog + wheel. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|cog|wheel}} cog + wheel Head templates: {{en-noun}} cogwheel (plural cogwheels)
  1. A gear wheel. Wikidata QID: Q143873 Synonyms: gear wheel, gearwheel Hypernyms: cog#Noun, wheel#Noun, gear Related terms: cog wheel [alternative], cog-wheel [alternative]
    Sense id: en-cogwheel-en-noun-en:Q143873 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 42 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 74 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 76 24
  2. (attributive) Something behaving in a jerky manner similar to a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine. Tags: attributive
    Sense id: en-cogwheel-en-noun-906waWTL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cogwheeled, cogwheeling

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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