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worm gear
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worm gear [′wərm ‚gir]
(design engineering)
A gear with teeth cut on an angle to be driven by a worm; used to connect nonparallel, nonintersecting shafts.


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Sony's new WORM drives will be multifunctional, fully supporting AIT-3 rewritable cartridges, as well as AIT-3 WORM media.
It's basically a postage-stamp-sized, 500-megabyte WORM drive weighing perhaps an ounce, and about an inch square on a side.
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