Worm drive

worm gear

1. A gear consisting of a spirally threaded shaft and a wheel with marginal teeth that mesh into it.

2. The toothed wheel of this gear; a worm wheel.

worm gear

worm gear assembly

worm gear

1. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a device consisting of a threaded shaft (worm) that mates with a gearwheel (worm wheel) so that rotary motion can be transferred between two shafts at right angles to each other

2. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) Also called worm wheel a gearwheel driven by a threaded shaft or worm

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worm gear - gear consisting of a shaft with screw thread (the worm) that meshes with a toothed wheel (the worm wheel); changes the direction of the axis of rotary motion

cogwheel, gear, gear wheel, geared wheel - a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

worm - screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

worm wheel - gear with the thread of a worm

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worm screw
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worming

By reading the application-ID, the AIT WORM drive is able to identify if the AIT tape media is WORM or non-WORM media.

Sony AIT Tape Recording Process by Tape4backup / Computers and Internet community

Although only 17 were sold, the PW was an advanced design with coil-spring independent front suspension and even coil springs for the rear axle which was spoiled by a worm drive of ages past.

Price drove customers away from large, beautiful post war saloon; ... by Birmingham Mail (England)

Although only 17 were sold, the PW was an advanced design with coil-spring independent front suspension and even coil springs for the rear axle which was spoiled by a worm drive of ages past.

How Cinderella became rather too ponderous; CLASSIC WHEELS by The Journal (Newcastle, England)

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