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Word: Escapement
Speech Type: Noun
late 18th century: from French échappement, from échapper ‘to escape’
ɪˈskeɪpm(ə)nt
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
Short Definition:mechanism in clock or watch that alternately checks and releases train by fixed amount and transmits periodic impulse
Examples:- a lever escapement
a mechanism in a typewriter that shifts the carriage a small fixed amount to the left after a key is pressed and released.
Short Definition:mechanism in typewriter that shifts carriage small fixed amount to left after key
the part of the mechanism in a piano that enables the hammer to fall back as soon as it has struck the string.
Short Definition:part of mechanism in piano that enables hammer to fall back as soon as it has struck string
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