: a toothed wheel gearing with the thread of a worm
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In addition, the cars' worm wheel spring preload — a measurement of spring compression — was set too high.—Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024 Also, the gear geometry is such that, when the saw is on, the worm gear can turn the worm wheel, but not the other way around.—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2021
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