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Definition of Escapement
1. Noun. Mechanical device that regulates movement.
Generic synonyms: Mechanical Device
Group relationships: Horologe, Timekeeper, Timepiece
Definition of Escapement
1. n. The act of escaping; escape.
Definition of Escapement
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. a mechanism found in devices such as a typewriter or printer which controls lateral motion of the carriage ¹
3. Noun. an escape or means of escape ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Escapement
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Escapement
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Escapement
Literary usage of Escapement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"If it is possible to make astronomical clocks go better than at present by merely
giving them a better escapement, it is quite certain that one on the same ..."
2. Time Telling Through the Ages by Harry Chase Brearley (1919)
"Escapement, LEVER—TABLE ROLLER —Excellent and very simple and the most common
form today. It differs from the crank lever only in the action of the roller. ..."
3. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"A repeater watch, size 1'7 inches, gold case and dome striking the hours, quarters,
and minutes, duplex escapement pallet, roller, and 24 rubies, ..."
4. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"The escapement teeth, acting alternately on the pallets, lift and clear them,
... An old form of recoil escapement, in which a crown escape wheel is used. ..."
5. The Mechanics' Magazine (1853)
"Of the latest attempts to improve the escapement by removing the friction
which »fleets the pendulum, the author notices a few which appear to he the most ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"The Swiss watches have almost universally the horizontal escapement. It is found
that—for some reason which is apparently unknown, as the nil« certainly ..."
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