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单词 balance wheel
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Definition of balance wheel in English:

balance wheel

noun
  • The regulating device in a watch or clock.

    (钟表的)平衡轮,摆轮

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In general, any lantern clock with a balance wheel has had its escapement restored.
    • The timing mechanism is usually some form of tuned oscillator, such as a pendulum, a balance wheel (which rotates back and forth), or a quartz crystal (which vibrates).
    • Huygens also developed the balance wheel and spring assembly that is still found in some wristwatches today.
    • It thus made a perfect balance wheel to ‘manly emotion,’ which consisted of powerful and urgent passions.
    • This oscillation is not exactly a parallel to the balance wheel and hairspring of a clockwork watch, but the fact is that both use oscillations to keep track of passing time.
    • Hill writes, ‘Enthusiasm is the vital quality that arouses you to action, while self-control is the balance wheel that directs your action so that it will build up and not tear down.’
    • The alloys are used in a variety of products, such as ball bearings, springs, balance wheels in watches, surgical instruments, electrical contacts, and astronomical mirrors.
    • The American light-vehicle buyers, with their economic balance wheels cheerfully clicking away, have embraced the lower transaction prices, not by saving, but by buying bigger and fancier units.
    • Fashioned with loving care from pure gold, enhanced with jewels to make the fine springs and tiny balance wheels work better and longer, I began working in 1900 as a gentleman's pocket watch.
    • Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance wheel of the social machinery.
    • Instead of a verge and foliot escapements they used a device called a balance wheel, which swung back and forth regulating the motion of the gears.
    • Hooke used the natural oscillation of a spring to control the balance of a clock and some years later Huygens also experimented with a balance wheel and spring assembly which can still be found in mechanical wrist watches.
    • ‘We are here,’ Futanri continued, her voice like the shriek of meteorites in atmosphere, ‘to examine the shifting of the balance wheel.’

Definition of balance wheel in US English:

balance wheel

nounˈbaləns ˌ(h)wēl
  • The regulating device in a watch or clock.

    (钟表的)平衡轮,摆轮

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It thus made a perfect balance wheel to ‘manly emotion,’ which consisted of powerful and urgent passions.
    • Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance wheel of the social machinery.
    • Hooke used the natural oscillation of a spring to control the balance of a clock and some years later Huygens also experimented with a balance wheel and spring assembly which can still be found in mechanical wrist watches.
    • Hill writes, ‘Enthusiasm is the vital quality that arouses you to action, while self-control is the balance wheel that directs your action so that it will build up and not tear down.’
    • The timing mechanism is usually some form of tuned oscillator, such as a pendulum, a balance wheel (which rotates back and forth), or a quartz crystal (which vibrates).
    • Fashioned with loving care from pure gold, enhanced with jewels to make the fine springs and tiny balance wheels work better and longer, I began working in 1900 as a gentleman's pocket watch.
    • Instead of a verge and foliot escapements they used a device called a balance wheel, which swung back and forth regulating the motion of the gears.
    • ‘We are here,’ Futanri continued, her voice like the shriek of meteorites in atmosphere, ‘to examine the shifting of the balance wheel.’
    • In general, any lantern clock with a balance wheel has had its escapement restored.
    • The American light-vehicle buyers, with their economic balance wheels cheerfully clicking away, have embraced the lower transaction prices, not by saving, but by buying bigger and fancier units.
    • The alloys are used in a variety of products, such as ball bearings, springs, balance wheels in watches, surgical instruments, electrical contacts, and astronomical mirrors.
    • Huygens also developed the balance wheel and spring assembly that is still found in some wristwatches today.
    • This oscillation is not exactly a parallel to the balance wheel and hairspring of a clockwork watch, but the fact is that both use oscillations to keep track of passing time.
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