A balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring.
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Examples for "spring scale "
1 Take a spring scale registering at least eighty pounds and catch the hook under the string.
2 The bass Miss Margie had caught carried the spring scale down to twelve and a quarter.
3 We weighed her in installments with our spring scales ; she registered three hundred and five pounds.
1 Curious to see whether fact would bear out theory, I had myself weighed with a spring balance .
2 Portland and I assisted at the capture, and the fish dragged the spring balance out by the roots.
3 Further, let the spring balance be at the free end of the cord toward which the pulley runs.
4 No further doubt could exist, and then Manuel, taking a spring balance (weighing up to 50 lbs.)
5 A fine Salter's spring balance was hung up, and a bale suspended to the hook; the finger indicated 105 lbs.
6 As each cow is milked, the milker hangs the pail on a spring balance and registers the exact weight on a blackboard.
7 The pointer on the spring balance shows that the force required to balance the 4-pound load is but 2 pounds.
8 Before taking his place in the operator's seat Tom started the motor, and by means of a spring balance tested the thrust of the propellers.
9 A spring balance , fitted with a hook, held the article to be weighed; a pointer, revolving on a disc, indicated the weight of the article.
10 Spring balance produced; trout weighed at 2 lb.
11 (Principle of the spring balance . )
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