Usually means: Gear that rotates perpendicular shaft.
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  1. worm gear: Merriam-Webster
  2. worm gear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. worm gear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. worm gear: Collins English Dictionary
  5. worm gear: Vocabulary.com
  6. worm gear: Wordnik
  7. worm gear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. worm gear: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. worm gear: Dictionary.com
  10. Worm gear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. worm gear: Rhymezone
  12. worm gear: FreeDictionary.org
  13. worm gear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. worm gear: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. worm gear: Wiktionary

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  1. worm gear: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See worm_gearing as well.)

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noun:  The gear in a worm drive.

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