sprocket
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Over in a dilapidated shack on the opposite side of the highway, 24-year-old Nasratullah Raihan said much the same as he watched a repairman fiddle with the rear sprocket of his bicycle.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2021
He’s always been a gearhead, devoted to celluloid and sprocket holes, but his best movies are also sentimental as hell—big, sloppy tearjerkers wrapped inside clockwork thrillers.
From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020
Ease the film onto the metal reel, where, ideally, the film’s sprocket holes will catch in tiny teeth.
From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2017
Another difference: film was still film — giant reels of 35mm stock with sprocket holes, just like what D.W.
From Time • May 25, 2014
Willem leans over his bicycle; he's disabled his chain and is now pretending to fix it, working it back over the sprocket.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing sprocket
Mechanical Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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Engineering - High School
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