sprocket

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Any of various toothlike projections arranged on a wheel rim to engage the links of a chain.

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A cylinder with a toothed rim that engages in the perforations of photographic or movie film to pull it through a camera or projector.

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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.

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One of the projections on a sprocket-wheel which engage the chain.

noun

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

noun

A sprocket wheel.

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A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.

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The tooth of such a wheel.

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A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.

noun

A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.