Word: escapements
Translations: escapements
Dictionary:
spanish
Translations:
escapes, escapes de
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german
Translations:
hemmungen, Hemmungen, Escapements, Hemmungs
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french
Translations:
échappements, échappées, les échappées, des échappées, échappée
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italian
Translations:
scappamenti, scappamento, scappamento a, scappamenti di, scappamenti a
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portuguese
Translations:
escapamentos, escapes, escapamento, escapos, escapes de
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dutch
Translations:
uitnemers, echappement, echappement bevindt, echappement bevindt zich over, echappement bevindt zich
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russian
Translations:
спусками
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polish
Translations:
wychwytów
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greek
Translations:
αποδράσεις, τις αποδράσεις
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ukrainian
Translations:
спусками
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belarusian
Translations:
спускамі
The meaning and "use of": escapements
noun
- a mechanism in a clock or watch that alternately checks and releases the train by a fixed amount and transmits a periodic impulse from the spring or weight to the balance wheel or pendulum. - In 1730 Harrison visited London, taking with him his gridiron pendulum and the grasshopper escapement which he had developed, and there he learnt exactly what was required to win the longitude prize.
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