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English → English (gcide) Definition: Change wheel Change \Change\, n. [F. change, fr. changer. See Change. v. t.] 1. Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles. [1913 Webster] Apprehensions of a change of dynasty. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. --Job xiv. 14. [1913 Webster] 2. A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons. [1913 Webster] Our fathers did for change to France repair. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] The ringing grooves of change. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon. [1913 Webster] 4. Alteration in the order of a series; permutation. [1913 Webster] 5. That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another. [1913 Webster] Thirty change (R.V. changes) of garments. --Judg. xiv. 12. [1913 Webster] 6. Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due. [1913 Webster] 7. [See Exchange.] A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions. [Colloq. for Exchange.] [1913 Webster] 8. A public house; an alehouse. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] They call an alehouse a change. --Burt. [1913 Webster] 9. (Mus.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale. [1913 Webster] Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. --Holder. [1913 Webster] Change of life, the period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age. Change ringing, the continual production, without repetition, of changes on bells, See def. 9. above. Change wheel (Mech.), one of a set of wheels of different sizes and number of teeth, that may be changed or substituted one for another in machinery, to produce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc. To ring the changes on, to present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways. Syn: Variety; variation; alteration; mutation; transition; vicissitude; innovation; novelty; transmutation; revolution; reverse. [1913 Webster]