Dictionary Entry
escapement
escapement is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of escaping; escape. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of escaping; escape.
- 2noun
Way of escape; vent.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
mechanical device that regulates movement
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