Escapements is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ESCAPEMENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ESCAPEMENT, 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.
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 ESCAPEMENTS

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How to use ESCAPEMENTS in a sentence

• The teaching of this part is very important as regards the manufacture of escapements.

Similar words containing ESCAPEMENT without suffix s

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