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WHEELWORK
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("wheelwork" is a kind of...):
mechanical device (mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wheelwork"):
gear; gearing; geartrain; power train; train (wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed)
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