Escapement

Definition of Escapement

Es`cape´ment

n.	1.	The act of escaping; escape.
	2.	Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. - G. Eliot.
	3.	The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; - so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.

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