WHEELWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wheelwork mean? 

• WHEELWORK (noun)
  The noun WHEELWORK has 1 sense:

1. mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears)

  Familiarity information: WHEELWORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHEELWORK (noun)

Sense 1

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)