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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various toothlike projections arranged on a wheel rim to engage the links of a chain.
  2. n. A cylinder with a toothed rim that engages in the perforations of photographic or movie film to pull it through a camera or projector.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of a series of projections in a grooved recess round the lower part of a ship's capstan, by which the chain-cable is grasped while heaving up anchor.
  2. n. One of the projections on a sprocket-wheel which engage the chain.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
  2. n. usually plural The tooth of such a wheel.
  3. n. architecture A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
  4. n. A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A tooth or projection, as on the periphery of a wheel, shaped so as to engage with a chain.
  2. n. A sprocket wheel.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
  2. n. thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
  3. n. tooth on the rim of gear wheel

Etymologies

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  2. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “There is a drop down menu from the top middle bar of your working window (with a little 'sprocket' symbol).”

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  • “Why, coming home on my bicycle the other day there was an awful row between some infernal 'sprocket' and the 'ball bearings' of the machine, and I never knew before there were such things in the whole concern. ”

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  • “All you have to do is back off the holding nuts, then use a screwdriver to turn a sprocket in the bar to loosen or tighten the chain as much as you want.”

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  • “Meanwhile Julie Lewis continues to change the world, one film sprocket at a time.”

    The Huffington Post: Holly Cara Price: Sustainable, Recyclable, Durable: Purses and Bags Made from Movie Film

  • “The sprocket appears to make a complete rotation for every hour, which would mean that its the minute drive being used.”

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  • “The clutter of existence falls away pretty easily when you need all your energy just to turn the pedal sprocket one more revolution.”

    It's All Downhill From Here

  • “With the creaking sound of a tired sprocket, I looked up to see Larry Beecher ride by on his ten speed bike for the third time in five minutes; head bent in a slow, yet purposeful pace, pedaled by fifteen dollar tennis shoes, shock white socks stretched with perfection to the knee caps, 70s-style brown sport shorts, yellow mesh tank top, low-worn baseball cap and a pair of mirrored aviator sunglasses.”

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  • “As the socks and sprocket and all that came with them disappeared in earnest down the block, I flipped the plunger in the air, allowing exactly one revolution, grabbed it by its wooden handle and went inside to get dressed for the day in store.”

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  • “Avoid diphthongs, the Guggenheim Museum, and the words “sprocket,” “croque-monsieur,” and “pants” when writing an advice column.”

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  • “Ides of March -- which stars both Clooney and Gosling and is directed by Clooney -- bowed for the press yesterday at the jewel-like TIFF Bell Lighbtbox, the theater complex that anchors Toronto's famed sprocket opera.”

    The Huffington Post: Erica Abeel: Clooney and Gosling Take Toronto

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