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Definition of Detents
1. detent [n] - See also: detent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detents
Literary usage of Detents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Mechanism by Robert Willis (1870)
"DIFFERENTIAL detents. 474. Ratchet wheels * are sometimes employed in machinery
which requires them to be moved through very small angles, or angles with ..."
2. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1825)
"They are fixed on their arbors by a thin steel socket, made as forged with the
detents, much in the same way as the pallets were, as may be seen at c, fig. ..."
3. Treatise on Clock and Watch Making: Theoretical and Practical by Thomas Reid (1832)
"In the figure are seen the detents dd, whose centre of motion is at cc ; they
are fixed on their arbors by n thin steel socket, made as forged with the ..."
4. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1819)
"Those detents 13, can only be removed after they have detected or caught the
tumblers by the regulating bolt 7, moved by a regulating key as before, ..."
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