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escapement::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | mechanical device |
Examples of escapement
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The Nooksack wild fish escapement goal, which feeds bald eagles, is 18,000 fish.
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The crown wheel must have an odd number of teeth for the escapement to function.
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It was operated by an escapement mechanism and the earliest known chain drive.
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It is a modification of the lever that has some features of the detent escapement.
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French watchmakers adopted the thinner cylinder escapement, invented in 1695.
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The clock tower was driven by a rotating waterwheel and escapement mechanism.
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Daniels's most important horological inventions, a double-wheel coaxial escapement.
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Called the grasshopper escapement, it was invented by John Harrison in 1725.
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Unlike the lever escapement, the impulse to the balance occurs at every other swing.
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- Mechanical device that regulates movement
- In mechanical watches and clocks, an escapement is a device which converts continuous rotational motion into an oscillating or back and forth motion. It is the source of the "ticking" sound produced by watches and clocks.
- The contrivance in a timepiece (winding wrist watch) which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration; a mechanism found in ...
- Device in a mechanical movement that controls the rotation of the wheels and thus the motion of the hands. Set of parts (escape wheel, lever, roller) which converts the rotary motion of the train into to-and-fro motion (the balance).
- Provides the balance with fresh additions of energy at regular intervals, and simultaneously prevents the movement from racing ahead and expending all its energy in a few mad seconds.
- The mechanism in a piano that allows the hammer to escape" after a string has been struck, so leaving the string to vibrate. Double escapement allows a hammer to strike a second time without waiting for the key to rise to its normal position of rest.
- Allows the power stored in the mainspring to be released through the gears at regular intervals.
- In gravity or power operated package conveyor, a device to permit the release of packages on at a time on demand.
- The escapement of a string is the distance in pixels in the primary draw direction from the drawing origin to the origin of the next character (that is, the one following the given string) to be drawn.
