What does "gear wheel" mean?

A wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear.

What is a synonym for "gear wheel"?

Common synonyms include: cogwheel, cogwheels, gear, geared wheel, gearwheel, gearwheels.

/ɡɪɚ ʍil/ noun

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Noun

1
A wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear.
"Holonym: gearset"
2
a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion wordnet

From gear + wheel.