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Clockwork

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

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Mechanism 76% connected

The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anythi…

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Mainspring 70% connected

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 gunlock which imp…

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Arrhythmous adjective · 78% connection

Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.

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Backlash noun · 78% connection

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

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Balance wheel unknown · 78% connection

A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel.

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Casual adjective · 78% connection

Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.

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Circulation noun · 78% connection

The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementar…

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Contraction noun · 78% connection

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…

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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…

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Drill noun · 78% connection

Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

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Eccentric noun · 78% connection

One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.

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Embolism noun · 78% connection

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

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Evolution noun · 78% connection

A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a m…

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Exactness noun · 78% connection

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

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Falter v. & n. · 78% connection

To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.

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Farce verb · 78% connection

A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and a…

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Flow noun · 78% connection

Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a…

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Fly verb · 78% connection

Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of t…

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Hiccough noun · 78% connection

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

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Irrotational adjective · 78% connection

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…

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