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What is the noun for cog?

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cog
  1. A tooth on a gear.
  2. A gear; a cogwheel.
  3. An unimportant individual in a greater system.
  4. (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
  5. (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Friction shifters have to be fine-tuned into each cog of the gear you are shifting to.”
      “Each tooth of the rotating cog is convectively cooled by the surrounding air.”
      “He was just a small cog in a huge, well-oiled machine.”
cog
  1. (historical) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Friction shifters have to be fine-tuned into each cog of the gear you are shifting to.”
      “Each tooth of the rotating cog is convectively cooled by the surrounding air.”
      “He was just a small cog in a huge, well-oiled machine.”
cog
  1. A trick or deception; a falsehood.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Friction shifters have to be fine-tuned into each cog of the gear you are shifting to.”
      “Each tooth of the rotating cog is convectively cooled by the surrounding air.”
      “He was just a small cog in a huge, well-oiled machine.”
cog
  1. A small fishing boat.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Friction shifters have to be fine-tuned into each cog of the gear you are shifting to.”
      “Each tooth of the rotating cog is convectively cooled by the surrounding air.”
      “He was just a small cog in a huge, well-oiled machine.”
cogs
  1. plural of cog
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If the chain is too long, the derailleur will rotate inward too far and bounce the upper jockey wheel through the chain on the largest cogs.”
      “As for adjusting for cable stretch, as the cable stretches, the derailleur will move to larger cogs faster and slower to smaller cogs.”
      “Otherwise they hold on to whatever touches them, and the chain will have enough lube on it to moisten up the cogs where it contacts each one.”
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