MEANING
A gear whose teeth run at an angle to its axis rather than straight across its face.
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- a helical-gear pair
- helical gear teeth
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The helical-gear pair ran quietly until the bearing began to fail.
She accounted for axial thrust from the helical gear teeth.
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- helical gear
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular helical gear; plural helical gears. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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