Usually means: Mechanism regulating movement in clocks.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. escapement: Merriam-Webster
  2. escapement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. escapement: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. escapement: Collins English Dictionary
  5. escapement: Vocabulary.com
  6. escapement: Wordnik
  7. escapement: Wiktionary
  8. escapement: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. escapement: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. escapement: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Escapement, escapement: Dictionary.com
  12. Escapement (film), Escapement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Escapement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. escapement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. escapement: Rhymezone
  16. Escapement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. escapement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. escapement: FreeDictionary.org
  19. escapement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. escapement: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

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  1. escapement: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (escapement)

noun:  (clocks, mechanics) The linkage in a (watch) that gives impulses to the timekeeping element and periodically releases the gear train to move forward, advancing the clock's hands.
noun:  A mechanism found in devices such as a typewriter or printer which controls lateral motion of the carriage.
noun:  An escape or a means of escape.
noun:  The number of fish that escape commercial fishing operations and travel upstream to spawn.

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