Sprocket vs Pulley - What's the difference?
sprocket | pulley |
A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
(usually, in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
(architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
A (placeholder name) for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
One of the simple machines; a wheel with a grooved rim in which a pulled rope or chain will lift an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).
As nouns the difference between sprocket and pulley
is that sprocket is a toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band while pulley is one of the simple machines; a wheel with a grooved rim in which a pulled rope or chain will lift an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).As a verb pulley is
to raise or lift by means of a pulley.sprocket
English
(wikipedia sprocket)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 widgets per year, and a sprocket factory that produces 200 sprockets per year.