1
: a toothed wheel whose teeth engage the links of a chain
2
: a cylinder with teeth around the circumference at either end that project through perforations in something (such as movie film) to move it through a mechanism (such as a projector)
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The palm-sized tool engages each sprocket with just a tiny turn and has multiple configurations for maximum situational adaptability.
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New Atlas, 21 Nov. 2025
While State Farm played the sprockets off Mahomes’ new ad with Meghan Trainor earlier this fall, the insurance company’s beefed-up talent roster has created more opportunities for the likes of Derrick Henry, Aidan Hutchinson and NFL broadcasters Ryan Fitzpatrick and Charissa Thompson.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Look for such extras as flexible coaster tubes, cascade stilts, trampolines, roto catchers, speed sprockets, vortexes, spiral spheres and elevators.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
And the rear cassette shifted moderately quick, while spinning mostly in silence other in the biggest sprockets.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
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New Atlas, 21 Nov. 2025
While State Farm played the sprockets off Mahomes’ new ad with Meghan Trainor earlier this fall, the insurance company’s beefed-up talent roster has created more opportunities for the likes of Derrick Henry, Aidan Hutchinson and NFL broadcasters Ryan Fitzpatrick and Charissa Thompson.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Look for such extras as flexible coaster tubes, cascade stilts, trampolines, roto catchers, speed sprockets, vortexes, spiral spheres and elevators.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
And the rear cassette shifted moderately quick, while spinning mostly in silence other in the biggest sprockets.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
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“Sprocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sprocket. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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sprocket
noun
sprock·et
ˈspräk-ət 
1
: one of many points that stick up on the rim of a wheel shaped so as to fit into the links of a chain
2
: a wheel having sprockets
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