Sprocket
/ˈspɹɒkɪt/ noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
- 2 tooth on the rim of gear wheel wordnet
- 3 The tooth of such a wheel. plural-normally
- 4 thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain wordnet
- 5 A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
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- 6 roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through wordnet
- 7 A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
"Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 widgets per year, and a sprocket factory that produces 200 sprockets per year."
Example
More examples"Do you know what a sprocket is?"
Etymology
Unknown. First attested in the 16th century. Perhaps related to Italian rocchetto (“spool”), spoletta (“spool”), sprone (“spur”), or English spoke, spike, spur.