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| worm gear (plural worm gears) |
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1. gear with threaded shaft: a gear consisting of a shaft with a helical thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to transfer rotary motion between two shafts at right angles to one another
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2. mechanical engineering Same as worm wheel
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