wheelwork

Definitions of wheelwork

1. noun

   mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears)
   types:

   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

   epicyclic gear train, epicyclic train

   a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis

   reduction gear

   gearing that reduces an input speed to a slower output speed

   type of:

   mechanical device

   mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles