Sentence examples for the sprocket from inspiring English sources
noun
A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
The fork protrudes and recedes to engage the sprocket holes.
For cadence, the sprocket size of each gear has to be entered as well.
"What is the sprocket horsepower of the Chieftain tank?" he asked the British ambassador.
Clearances between the sprocket teeth and the chain allow for a small amount of shaft misalignment.
And this year we learned how an unreleased film could be correctly dated using the sprocket holes alone.
The device used a triangular "eccentric" (intermittent) movement connected to a claw to engage the sprocket holes.
The sprocket moves only when the pin is fully engaged in the Maltese cross slot (see Figure 5, right).
In such cases, sprockets take the place of gears but, being widely separated, drive one another by means of the chain passing over the sprocket teeth.
There are some minor differences in the shape of the sprocket holes in 35-mm film between negative and positive film.
It must be handled very carefully, as the impregnation with solution weakens the support, and the sprocket holes should not be engaged.
The sprocket holes (for the projector) are on the sides, running four per frame, with the soundtrack vertically to the right of them.
