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Adjourn
verb · 78% connection
To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
At
preposition · 78% connection
Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Balance
noun · 78% connection
An apparatus for weighing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Balance wheel
unknown · 78% connection
A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Between
preposition · 78% connection
In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Carcel lamp
unknown · 78% connection
A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Carillon
noun · 78% connection
A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Christcross
noun · 78% connection
The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Chronograph
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Clepsydra
noun · 78% connection
A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Clock
noun · 78% connection
A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Clockwork
noun · 78% connection
The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Contraction
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Detent
noun · 78% connection
That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Dogwatch
noun · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Heliostat
noun · 78% connection
An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Lignum-vitae
noun · 78% connection
A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
Machine
noun · 78% connection
In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: like, clock, clockwork, mechanical.
