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- [sprok-it]
- /ˈsprɒk ɪt/
- /ˈsprɔkɪt/
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- [sprok-it]
- /ˈsprɒk ɪt/
Definitions of sprocket word
- noun sprocket Machinery. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain. one tooth of such a wheel. 1
- noun sprocket Carpentry. a wedge-shaped piece of wood extending a sloping roof over the eaves with a flatter pitch. 1
- noun sprocket cogwheel 1
- countable noun sprocket A sprocket is a wheel with teeth around the outer edge that fit into the holes in a chain or a length of film or tape in order to move it round. 0
- noun sprocket a relatively thin wheel having teeth projecting radially from the rim, esp one that drives or is driven by a chain 0
- noun sprocket an individual tooth on such a wheel 0
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Origin of sprocket
First appearance:
before 1530 One of the 29% oldest English words
First recorded in 1530-40; origin uncertain
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Sprocket
noun
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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sprocket popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 68% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
sprocket usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for sprocket
noun sprocket
- cogwheel — a wheel with a rim notched into teeth, which mesh with those of another wheel or of a rack to transmit or receive motion
- gearwheel — a wheel having teeth or cogs that engage with those of another wheel or part; cogwheel.
- gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
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