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SPUR GEAR
spur gear
Most common gearing system linking two parallel shafts that changes the speed and force of a rotation; it is used especially in automobile transmissions.
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toothed wheel
Wheel with teeth that mesh with the teeth of another wheel to transmit rotational movement to it.
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