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balance spring

noun

, Horology.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of balance spring1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

The balance-spring is attached at its outer end to a fixed stud R, and at its inner end to staff of balance.

This balance compensates both for its own expansion and contraction, and that of the balance-spring.

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