1. a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion; [syn: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
geared wheel
n 1: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in
order to change the speed or direction of transmitted
motion [syn: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel,
cogwheel]