Crossword clues for sprocket
sprocket
- Thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
- Tooth on the rim of gear wheel
- Roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
- Gear to go very fast after 60 per cent reduction of speed
- Quiet reprimand by leading member of Stealers Wheel
- Wheel, let me add, turning on missile
- Small stone lodged in baby tooth
- Tooth on the rim of a driving wheel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sprocket \Sprock"et\ (spr[o^]k"[e^]t), n. [Etymology uncertain.] (Mach.)
A tooth or projection, as on the periphery of a wheel, shaped so as to engage with a chain.
A sprocket wheel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, originally a carpenters' word for a piece of timber used in framing, of unknown origin. The meaning "projection from the rim of a wheel that engages the links of a chain" is first recorded 1750.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band. 2 (context usually in the plural English) The tooth of such a wheel. 3 (context architecture English) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof. 4 A (w: placeholder name) for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
WordNet
n. roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain [syn: sprocket wheel]
tooth on the rim of gear wheel [syn: cog]
Wikipedia
A sprocket or sprocket-wheel is a profiled wheel with teeth, cogs, or even sprockets that mesh with a chain, track or other perforated or indented material. The name 'sprocket' applies generally to any wheel upon which radial projections engage a chain passing over it. It is distinguished from a gear in that sprockets are never meshed together directly, and differs from a pulley in that sprockets have teeth and pulleys are smooth.
Sprockets are used in bicycles, motorcycles, cars, tracked vehicles, and other machinery either to transmit rotary motion between two shafts where gears are unsuitable or to impart linear motion to a track, tape etc. Perhaps the most common form of sprocket may be found in the bicycle, in which the pedal shaft carries a large sprocket-wheel, which drives a chain, which, in turn, drives a small sprocket on the axle of the rear wheel . Early automobiles were also largely driven by sprocket and chain mechanism, a practice largely copied from bicycles.
Sprockets are of various designs, a maximum of efficiency being claimed for each by its originator. Sprockets typically do not have a flange. Some sprockets used with timing belts have flanges to keep the timing belt centered. Sprockets and chains are also used for power transmission from one shaft to another where slippage is not admissible, sprocket chains being used instead of belts or ropes and sprocket-wheels instead of pulleys. They can be run at high speed and some forms of chain are so constructed as to be noiseless even at high speed.
Sprocket (Amelia Barnhardt) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe where she was primarily a pilot for the superhero team the New Warriors. Her first appearance was in Night Thrasher: Four Control #2. She is African American and is the mother of deceased Redeemers member, Meteorite.
A sprocket is a profiled wheel with teeth.
Sprocket may also refer to:
- Sprockets (Saturday Night Live), a television comedy sketch on Saturday Night Live
Usage examples of "sprocket".
Suddenly, from the mouth of the glove compartment came first a grinding, machine-like noise, then the business end of a rotating, multibladed metal thing like a giant sprocket wrench.
The projectionist booth is soundproof because inside the booth is the racket of sprockets snapping film past the lens at six feet a second, ten frames a foot, sixty frames a second snapping through, clattering Gatling-gun fire.
The steel rails tore the jockey wheels out of them, and the tracks sprang out of their seating on the sprockets and whipped into the air, flogging themselves to death in a cloud of dust and torn vegetation.
Slamming the car door hard enough to spring a sprocket, he stomped up the walk and glowered down at me.
In syrupy light Luce was feeding the celluloid through the sprocket wheel.
Bagnall could hear every click of the bicycle chain as it traveled over the sprocket.
Grasping Domi's arm, she thrust the hand between the metal sprockets of the chain pulley.
He brought, in addition to the item Erin requested, two magnums of Korbel champagne, three dozen red roses, a gold bracelet and a shopping bag of assorted compact discs: Smithereens, Pearl Jam, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Men II Boyz, REM, Wilson Phillips.
He suggested I should pass the time seeing the sights while he fixed up the sprockets or the differential gear or whatever it was.
He opened the film gate gingerly and removed the film from the sprockets.
In his left hand he held a makeshift weapon that had been part of a Nautilus Super Pullover machine—a curved metal bar about two feet long, with twelve inches of chain and a dangling, macelike sprocket at its business end.
But when with dog as chipper as ever they enter the third stall, no sprocket wheel is roaring, no magnesium chloride develops vapors.
He pictured many men turning the big cranked handle to rotate the sprocket wheel which turned the endless chain and brought each leather disk up the pipe casing with its quota of water, emptying it into the trough of the pump dale as it came over the top and started its downward journey again.
I don't suppose you ever saw a man caught up in a four-inch roller chain that runs over a sprocket, Mr Stewart?