Balance wheel: alternatives and connections

An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic b…

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…

Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.

The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "‘won't’ is a contraction of ‘will not’"; "‘o'clock’ is a c…

The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch fro…

The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse b…

Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small proje…

The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel wh…

The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gu…

The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.