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单词 crown wheel
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crown wheel


noun Horology.

a wheel next to the winding knob, having two sets of teeth, one at right angles to its plane.
any of various wheels having the form of a hoop or short cylinder with a serrated edge, as the escape wheel in a verge escapement.

Origin of crown wheel

First recorded in 1640–50

Words nearby crown wheel

crown-rump length, crown rust, crown saw, crown vetch, crown wart, crown wheel, crownwork, crow over, crow-pheasant, crow's-foot, crow's-nest
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Example sentences from the Web for crown wheel

  • When the teeth are arranged upon the radial or side face of the wheel, as in Fig. 4, it is termed a crown-wheel.

    Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II|Joshua Rose
  • Plate 147 shows us the oldest known arrangement of a crown-wheel escapement in a clock.

    Watch and Clock Escapements|Anonymous

British Dictionary definitions for crown wheel

crown wheel

noun

horology the wheel next to the winding knob that has one set of teeth at right angles to the other
the larger of the two gears in a bevel gear
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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