单词 | horizontal dial |
释义 | > as lemmashorizontal dial horizontal bar, a round bar fixed horizontally at some distance above the ground for gymnastic exercise. horizontal dial, a dial with the face, or surface on which the hours are marked, horizontal. horizontal (steam) engine, one in which the piston moves horizontally. horizontal escapement (in a watch), ‘one in which the impulse is given by the teeth of a horizontal wheel acting on a hollow cylinder on the axis of the balance; invented by Graham about 1700’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.). †horizontal rudder Aeronaut., an elevator on an aircraft. horizontal watch, one having a horizontal escapement. horizontal wheel, a wheel the plane of which is horizontal, the axis being vertical; in a carriage, the wheel-plate or ‘fifth wheel’.extracted from horizontaladj.n.< as lemmas |
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