plural of gear-wheel

Synonym of gear wheel

Alternative spelling of gear wheel

Synonym of mortise wheel

(US, slang, automotive) The neutral gear when used while a vehicle is moving, especially when it is used to save fuel or to coast downhill faster than a vehicle can go in gear.

A kind of pepper spray in the form of a gel.

(zoology) Elasmodactylus tuberculosus, a species of eastern-African gecko.

(physics) A rule relating the decay constant of a radioactive isotope with the energy of the alpha particles emitted. Roughly speaking, it states that short-lived isotopes emit more energetic alpha particles than long-lived ones.

Synonym of Geiger-Nuttall law

A solid material produced by conversion of monomers into a colloidal solution (sol) that acts as the precursor for an integrated network (or gel) of either discrete particles or network polymers.