Escapement

 

 

 

Escapement

 

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Escapement

 

Meaning of term escapement

Escapement (n.) The contrivance in a timepiece 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.

 

Source: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~ralph/OPTED/v003/wb1913_e.html

Author : OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

 

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