英语词汇“centre wheel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

centre wheel n. the wheel that carries the minute hand in the mechanism of a clock or watch; (later also more generally) any wheel located centrally within a device or mechanism.In quot. 1736 as part of an extended metaphor.

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1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 462/2 I Desired Francis Hildyard..to bring an erroneous Watch to thee... Thou tellest me in thy Note, that thou hast rectified the Center-wheel, yet the whole Machine goes wrong.

1762 T. Walter New Math. Dict. at Clock The great wheel..drives the pinion of the centre wheel.

1846 Morning Post 22 July 3/4 He recommends a middle rail with a centre wheel for the locomotive.

1876 Nature 19 Oct. 530/2 The centre-wheel turns once for every sixty turns of the escape-wheel, that is, once in an hour.

1917 Pop. Mech. Oct. 177 It [sc. a watch] has solid gold center wheel and double roller pinion.

2000 R. H. Wauer Birds of Northwestern National Parks 6 Bring the binoculars up into position..and use the center wheel to focus on the object.

单词	centre wheel
释义	> as lemmas centre wheel centre wheel n. the wheel that carries the minute hand in the mechanism of a clock or watch; (later also more generally) any wheel located centrally within a device or mechanism.In quot. 1736 as part of an extended metaphor. ΚΠ 1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 462/2 I Desired Francis Hildyard..to bring an erroneous Watch to thee... Thou tellest me in thy Note, that thou hast rectified the Center-wheel, yet the whole Machine goes wrong. 1762 T. Walter New Math. Dict. at Clock The great wheel..drives the pinion of the centre wheel. 1846 Morning Post 22 July 3/4 He recommends a middle rail with a centre wheel for the locomotive. 1876 Nature 19 Oct. 530/2 The centre-wheel turns once for every sixty turns of the escape-wheel, that is, once in an hour. 1917 Pop. Mech. Oct. 177 It [sc. a watch] has solid gold center wheel and double roller pinion. 2000 R. H. Wauer Birds of Northwestern National Parks 6 Bring the binoculars up into position..and use the center wheel to focus on the object. extracted from centrecentern.¹adj. < as lemmas
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