escape wheel

escape wheel
Horol.
a toothed wheel for regulating a going train to which it is geared, engaging intermittently with the pallets of a pendulum or balance mechanism in such a way as to cause the mechanism to oscillate rhythmically, and in so doing free the going train for part of each oscillation. Also called scape wheel. See diag. under lever escapement.
[1880-85]

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