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gearwheel

noun as in gear

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Among hundreds of men wearing turbans and topees at Karachi’s main train station, Muhammad Arshad stood out in his blue baseball cap with Rotary’s bright yellow gearwheel.

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The continual restlessness of his great mind can be seen in the numerous sheets on which he had sketched, say, a gearwheel mechanism, only to move swiftly on to a series of male nudes or a study of ocean waves without even changing paper.

As the optional link JK held the gearwheel centers always equidistant, the annular guide G was not used.

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First take the case of a small gearwheel, say 1 in. outside diameter and 1/16 in. thick, with twenty-four teeth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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