The word 'cogwheel' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a toothed wheel that connects with other gears in a machine, transmitting motion or power. Example: The engineer carefully inspected the cogwheels in the gearbox, ensuring that they were properly aligned and functioning smoothly.
A must, not only for fans of 18th-century literature, but for students of the political, social and religious history of the period as well.The Difference Engine.By Doron Swade.Viking; 352 pages; $24.95.Published in Britain as "The Cogwheel Brain".
The effect is such that both series of equally spaced notes seem to interlock like the teeth of a cogwheel.
(3) The assembled matrices and spacebands are moved three times in succession: vertically upward on the composing stick; sideways to the left on a transfer slide rest; vertically downward on an elevator that puts them in front of the opening of a mold mounted on a cogwheel called a mold wheel, connected to an electric melting pot containing the molten lead alloy.
In the presence of tremor this latter form of hypertonia produces ratcheted, jerking movements, thus the name cogwheel rigidity.
In the stop-cylinder press, a toothed rack incorporated in the bed engages a cogwheel incorporated in the cylinder while the bed is moving forward.
In its lowered position the cylinder's cogwheel engages a low-toothed rack incorporated in the bed; in its raised position the cogwheel engages a parallel high-toothed rack, which enables the cylinder to continue revolving in the same direction.
Rather, it merely dismissed a procedural challenge by government lawyers to a ruling in February by a federal judge in Texas, which has halted the president's immigration agenda like a cartoon spanner thrown into giant cogwheels.
She unexpectedly got the foreign-policy job late last year, when Europe's cogwheels clicked, turned and aligned to favour a High Rep who was British, from the centre-left and a woman.
When Babbage began devising a new project, the "Analytical Engine" — sketched out as a hulking machine with thousands of cogwheels that could perform more functions with greater accuracy — Lovelace served as its key interpreter.
Takis's design for the forest, where George Humphreys' philandering Giove dons drag to pursue Paula Sides' virginal Calisto, is vaguely post-apocalyptic, with its twisted bits of metal, cogwheels and Anglepoise lamps a reminder that the opera takes place during Giove's re-creation of the world after its destruction by fire.
The weights are cogwheels from elevators that were never installed.
