bevel gears

A form of bevel gear — A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of bevel gear
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