sprocket
nounAny of various toothlike projections arranged on a wheel rim to engage the links of a chain.
nounA cylinder with a toothed rim that engages in the perforations of photographic or movie film to pull it through a camera or projector.
nounOne 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.
nounOne of the projections on a sprocket-wheel which engage the chain.
nounA tooth or projection, as on the periphery of a wheel, shaped so as to engage with a chain.
nounA sprocket wheel.
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The tooth of such a wheel.
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A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured