Crossword-Solution: DETENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Detent | n. | That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DETENT | anagram | NETTED, TENTED |
We have 24 clues for the answer “DETENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CLOCK, striking part of | 1 answer |
| Mechanism in a watch | 1 answer |
| Locking lever | 1 answer |
| Hinged lever | 1 answer |
| Gear catch | 1 answer |
| DEVICE to prevent backward motion | 1 answer |
| Clock catch. | 1 answer |
| Catch in a lock. | 1 answer |
| A metal catch, as in a clock. | 1 answer |
| A catch, in mechanics. | 1 answer |
| A catch or pawl. | 1 answer |
| Part of a jack. | 1 answer |
| Watch Mechanism Control | 1 answer |
| Watch lever | 1 answer |
| Windup toy device | 1 answer |
| Watch mechanism | 2 answers |
| Mechanical catch | 2 answers |
| ratchet | 4 answers |
| Locking device | 5 answers |
| pawl | 7 answers |
| A CATCH MECHANISM THAT ACTS AS A SWITCH | 10 answers |
| Watch part | 22 answers |
| Clock part | 27 answers |
| CLICK ___ | 62 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DETENT (5)
Before the end of March he invented the clock-work alarm, in which an electro-magnet attracted an armature of soft iron, and thus withdrew a detent, allowing the works to strike the alarm.
When this relay is energized by current in the opposite direction, the operation is such that both the moving pawl _6_ and the detent pawl _7_ will be pulled away from the segment, thus allowing the segment to return to its normal position by gravity.
This motion of the rocker arm withdraws the detent pawl from engagement with the segment as well as the moving pawl, and thereby permits the segment to return to its normal position.
This arm striking against the ratchet detent releases the balance weight, and the belt is at once brought on to the loose pulley.
Undoubtedly "the detent," or, as it is usually termed, "the chronometer escapement," is the most perfect of any of our portable time measurers.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1953–2018).