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Part of a watch, typewriter or piano
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escapement
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mechanical device that regulates movement
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in watch- and clock-making, 1779 (from 1755 as scapement ), based on French échappement (1716 in this sense); see escape (v.) + -ment .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Escapement \Es*cape"ment\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]chappement. See Escape .] The act of escaping; escape. [R.] Way of escape; vent. [R.] An escapement for youthful high spirits. --G. Eliot. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An escapement is a mechanism for imparting power to a clock or watch mechanism, with timing controlled by a pendulum or other resonant device. Escapement may also refer to: Escapement (radio control) , an obsolete precursor to the servo, used for the control ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The contrivance in a timepiece (winding wrist watch) which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet ...
Usage examples of escapement.
My little brother Kerin has gone to the Far East to leam the secret of their superior escapement.
Always, there was the steady tick, tick, tick of the ratchet wheels, the faint twang of the escapements, the snick of ruby on ruby, inside the little clock, and then the magnification of those sounds inside the thick brown and white marble night table top, and the echoes of those sounds bouncing back and forth underneath among the hard wooden table legs and on the shelf with its books, as Tim dozed the nights away with one eye sometimes opening a bit, then closing again.
Vaucan-son was listed among those sent copies of Monsieur Delisle's Mappe-monde for the Transit of Venus, showing us the preferr'd locations for observing the Event, arriv'd at the Royal Society in the care of Father Boscovich, years late, owing to the state of the Rivalry, I assum'd as ev'ryone did, that the great Automateur, having an interest in the Celestial Escapement above, and the date of the Event being sure as Clockwork, had early announc'd his intention to observe the impending Alignment, or even more simply, that he enjoy'd Esteem at the Academic.
Inside the clockcase a mouse, searching for a light supper for herself and her nest, bumped into something she didn't recognise, squeaked in terror, and started to climb for all she was worth, until she banged her head against the escapement, staggered, and darted back.
He stared hard again at the mechanism, a sort of detached escapement, which he was about to disassemble.
The three-story escapement was supposed to be the finest precision instrument of its kind in all the Fringe, and the clock also told phases of the moon, the annual movement of the sun, and predicted the first days of the High and Low Seasons every year, but these were of use only to scholars.