Clockwork: alternatives and connections

Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…

A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a…

Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.

The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.

The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil…

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…

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation fr…

Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar mont…

The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an anima…

The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.

To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closur…

Not rotatory; passing from one point to another by a movement other than rotation; -- said of the movement of parts of a liquid or yie…