toothed wheel
- noun
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- The clock mechanism uses a toothed wheel to control the movement of the hands.
Examples
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In the design of the machine, the toothed wheel creates precise perforations in the material as it rotates.
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As designed, the Difference Engine would have calculated polynomial functions via the movement of stacks of toothed wheels.
Academic text (2003) -
And typically on mechanical systems, a toothed wheel will engage in the so-called sprocket holes and will pull the thing forward.
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The first proto-computers were simple adding machines, using toothed wheels similar to clockworks to tally strings of numbers.
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The engineer replaced the broken toothed wheel to ensure the machine would function correctly.
Synonyms
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A small wheel with sharp teeth used to make tiny holes or dots in paper and leather
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'toothed' (having tooth-like or serrated projections) with 'wheel' (a rotating circular object): it simply describes a wheel that has teeth. This adjective+noun composition is a standard, compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Toothed wheel is a noun for a wheel with small teeth around its edge. As it turns, the teeth bite into paper to make a neat line of holes, so the name means a wheel with teeth sticking out that is used to make 'perforations'.