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mainspring::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | spring |
Examples of mainspring
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Moreover, he is the team's creative mainspring, dynamic force and penalty-taker.
From the independent.co.uk
It also has a power reserve indicator that shows the energy left in the mainspring.
From the techcrunch.com
The fussee is a spindle attached to a chain that winds the mainspring barrel.
From the techcrunch.com
Bright replied that if Cobden retired the mainspring of the League was gone.
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It means my life is meaningless.'They carried on somehow, but the mainspring was gone.
From the time.com
In watches it required a fusee to even out the force of the mainspring.
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The mainspring in this jewel of precision is beguileful Robert Morse.
From the time.com
For three periods Goebel was the mainspring of the Michigan eleven.
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Traditional mechanical watch movements use a spiral spring called a mainspring as a power source.
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- The most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism
- A mainspring is a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon that is the power source in mechanical watches and some clocks. Winding the timepiece, by turning a knob or key, stores energy in the mainspring by twisting the spiral tighter. ...
- Mainspring is the third novel from writer Jay Lake. It is a science fiction/fantasy novel, of the sub genre steampunk; this novel has also been classified as Clockpunk.
- The driving spring of a watch or clock, contained in the barrel.
- This and the barrel (s.) make up the driving element of a movement (s.). It stores and transmits the power force needed for its functioning.
- The principal spring of a watch that supplies the force of motion to the gear trains.
- The power source, made of tempered steel, for clockwork mechanisms.
- A thin, tightly coiled length of steel that when wound, provides the driving force for the phonograph.
- The flat, ribbon-like tempered steel spring wound inside the barrel and used to drive the train wheels.
