| 单词 | beat-pin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbeat-pin a. In a clock or watch: The stroke of a pallet of the pendulum or balance on a tooth of the scape wheel; the sound thus produced; also the regular succession of such strokes. Hence beat-pin. in or out of beat, off the beat: making a regular or irregular succession of strokes. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > striking or stroke stroke1436 beat1706 strike1871 grande sonnerie1932 the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [adverb] > in time in or out of beat1860 the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [adverb] > not keeping accurate time in or out of beat1874 the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of nut1428 peise1428 plumbc1450 Jack1498 clockwork1516 larum1542 Jack of the clockhouse1563 watch-wheel1568 work1570 plummeta1578 Jack of the clock1581 snail-cam1591 snail-work1591 pointer1596 quarter jack1604 mainspring1605 winder1606 notch-wheel1611 fusee1622 count-wheel1647 jack-wheel1647 frame1658 arbor1659 balance1660 fuse1674 hour-figure1675 stop1675 pallet1676 regulator1676 cock1678 movement1678 detent1688 savage1690 clock1696 pinwheel1696 starred wheel1696 swing-wheel1696 warning-wheel1696 watch1696 watch-part1696 hoop-wheel1704 hour-wheel1704 snail1714 step-wheel1714 tide-work1739 train1751 crutch1753 cannon pinion1764 rising board1769 remontoire1774 escapement1779 clock jack1784 locking plate1786 scapement1789 motion work1795 anchor escapement1798 scape1798 star-wheel1798 recoil escapement1800 recoiling pallet1801 recoiling scapement1801 cannon1802 hammer-tail1805 recoiling escapement1805 bottle jack1810 renovating spring1812 quarter-boy1815 pin tooth1817 solar wheel1819 impulse-teeth1825 pendulum wheel1825 pallet arbor1826 rewinder1826 rack hook1829 snail-wheel1831 quarter bell1832 tow1834 star pulley1836 watch train1838 clock train1843 raising-piece1843 wheelwork1843 gravity escapement1850 jumper1850 vertical escapement1850 time train1853 pin pallet1860 spade1862 dead well1867 stop-work1869 ringer1873 strike-or-silent1875 warning-piece1875 guard-pin1879 pendulum cock1881 warning-lever1881 beat-pin1883 fusee-piece1884 fusee-snail1884 shutter1884 tourbillion1884 tumbler1884 virgule1884 foliot1899 grasshopper1899 grasshopper escapement1899 trunk1899 pin lever1908 clock spring1933 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Beats in a watch or clock. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. IV. at Beat The interval between two successive beats, in a clock or watch. 1828 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 3) I. 90 In storm and in calm its [the chronometer's] steady beat went on. 1860 E. B. Denison Clocks & Watches & Bells 101 The proper way to try whether a clock is in beat is to let the pendulum swing only just far enough for the escape, and then you will easily hear if the beats are unequal. 1874 E. B. Denison Clocks & Watches & Bells (ed. 6) 73 When a clock with any kind of anchor escapement..sounds ‘out of beat’, it wants either one side lifting or the crutch bending. 1883 E. Beckett Rudim. Treat. Clocks (ed. 7) 131 In very large clocks the pallet tails are too thick to bend for adjustment of the beat, and these eccentric beat pins are used. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 32 Beat Pins, small screws to adjust the position of the crutch with relation to the pendulum. 1889 P. N. Hasluck Clock Jobber's Handybk. v. 94 Put on the pendulum, and set the clock ‘in beat’. The meaning of ‘in beat’ is, that the escape takes place at equal distances each side of the pendulum's centre of gravity... When ‘in beat’ the tick sounds regular, and nearly equal, differences of the drop making it slightly uneven. < as lemmas |
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