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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A mechanical escapement for precision pendulum clocks, improving on the deadbeat approach by having the energy required to keep the pendulum swinging supplied by bending the short straight spring strip which suspends the pendulum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Invented by Sigmund Riefler in 1889.
