epicycloidal wheel

British

noun

one of the planetary gears of an epicyclic train

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Epicycloidal Wheel Epicycloi�dal Wheel, a wheel or ring fixed to a framework, toothed on its inner side, and having in gear with it another toothed wheel of half the diameter of the first, fitted so as to revolve about the centre of the latter.

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