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Definition of Balance wheel
1. Noun. A wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat.
Definition of Balance wheel
1. Noun. The timekeeping device normally used in mechanical watches and small clocks. Consisting of a wheel which oscillates due to a coiled spring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balance Wheel
Literary usage of Balance wheel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Secondary Education: A Text-book by Charles De Garmo (1910)
"Habit has been well described as the balance-wheel of character. What this analogy
signifies may perhaps be best seen from a recapitulation of the functions ..."
2. Appleton's Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine-work, and Engineering by D. Appleton and Company, Oliver Byrne (1852)
"This wheel, termed the balance-wheel, is connected with the rest of the movement
by the pinion on its axis, as will be shown hereafter. ..."
3. Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such by Noël Antoine Pluche (1763)
"... all the Teeth of. the balance wheel E, at each Turn of the faid Wheel; and it
having 15 Teeth, the two Pallets together mult, ..."
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