"mechanical" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The term originated with mechanical timepieces, whose clockwork movements are made of many moving parts.
- With their colleague, George Whaley, they still rewind the entirely mechanical timepiece once a week.
- Another proposed solution was to use a mechanical timepiece, to be carried on a ship, that would maintain the correct time at a reference location.
- That trend has reversed itself as tastes shift to elegant mechanical timepieces that tell much more than the time of day.
- After all, sundials do not work on cloudy days, and mechanical timepieces were expensive in the 18th century.
- In the world of mechanical timepieces, accuracy is paramount.
- In the times before electronics, mechanical timepieces called marine chronometers were developed to a very high degree of accuracy and used for maritime navigation.
- In order to run at a regular rate a mechanical timepiece needs to have at least 30 per cent of its mainspring wound.
- A balance spring, or hairspring, is a part used in mechanical timepieces.
- Hobbes checked the mechanical timepiece on her wrist.
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