Escapement is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ESCAPEMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a part of a clock or watch connecting the wheelwork with the pendulum or balance, and allowing a tooth to escape at each vibration, also SCAPEMENT
• 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
• a mechanism in a typewriter that shifts the carriage a small fixed amount to the left after a key is pressed and released.
• the part of the mechanism in a piano that enables the hammer to fall back as soon as it has struck the string.
• The act of escaping; escape.
• Way of escape; vent.
• The contrivance in a timepiece 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 at each vibration.
• mechanical device that regulates movement
• a part of a clock or watch connecting the wheelwork with the pendulum or balance, and allowing a tooth to escape at each vibration
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a device in a timepiece which controls the motion of the train of wheelwork and through which the energy of the power source is delivered to the pendulum or balance by means of impulses that permit a tooth to escape from a pallet at regular intervals; a ratchet device (as the spacing mechanism of a typewriter) that permits motion in one direction only in equal steps

Words related to ESCAPEMENT

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Words that contain ESCAPEMENT

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How to use ESCAPEMENT in a sentence

• The main wheels are thirty inches in diameter, the escapement is jewelled, and the pendulum, which is in itself a curiosity, is over fourteen feet in length.
• Dreiser is a product of far different forces and traditions, and is capable of no such escapement.
• Dip the brush in the benzine and clean the spindles and spindle holes, and the teeth of the escapement wheel.
• When the lungs are thus filled with air, the sound is produced by escapement.
• By gentle blows furnished by the escapement at exactly the proper times, the heavy pendulum is kept in motion.
• To him she appeared nothing worse than an excited fanatic, and he allowed her to go her own way, as the best escapement of a frenzy.

Similar words containing ESCAPEM without suffix ent

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