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Meanings of escapement in English
Usage of escapement in English
1
The empathy escapement was never quite perfected before we went into production.
2
We will now take up the club-tooth form of the lever escapement.
3
Oil the tooth of the escapement wheel slightly, using a fine brush.
4
So the ballet girl was Degas' escapement from the thraldom of common knowledge.
5
The cylinder escapement is made up of two essential parts, viz.
6
The escapement suggested that to those who had no arms it would furnish-halberds!
7
The technical name for this type of escapement is called the Swiss lever escapement.
8
Note the cylinder escapement, the fine, clear face.' He sighed.
9
Of course, it was the ticking of the clock escapement that misled him-andme.
10
The pianoforte had to wait for fifty years for satisfactory regulation of the escapement.
11
Chronometers, which aspire to perfect timekeeping, are defined by the design of their escapement.
12
Open-faced with duplex escapement, one of James McCabe's famous breed.
13
The escapement is in front, so that every tooth is seen as it frees itself.
14
This escapement was actually invented in the 1750's by an English clockmaker named Thomas Mudge.
15
His instruments have a feature of their own; they are supplied with a peculiar escapement.
16
There is the spring, the pendulum, and the escapement.
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Translations for escapement
Russian
Spanish
Escapement through the time
Escapement across language varieties
United Kingdom
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