Detent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 53 anagrams from letters in detent (deentt).
1680-90; French détente, Old French destente, derivative of destendre to relax, equivalent to des- dis-1 + tendre to stretch; see ten
The revolving figures on horseback are moved by a separate weight, and are set in motion by the freeing of a detent.
This want undoubtedly led to the invention of the detent escapement.
But the pressure of the escape-wheel against the detent, and the consequent friction, prevent the pendulum from acting freely.
The number of strokes depends on the distance which the count-wheel has to revolve before being stopped by the detent F.
This is connected with a clockwork and detent arrangement, which simultaneously opens a valve and actuates the lamp flame.
When the required number of hours have struck, the notch approaches the detent, the gravity of which allows it to fall therein.
The soft iron tinned, which is attracted to the electro-magnet b, and liberates the detent.
When these crystals are warmed, the detent is lifted, and an outflow of light immediately begins.
The angle of the detent planes reduces the friction to almost nil.
On the gun being fired the sudden forward impetus of the shell causes the detent pin to exert a backward pressure of 8-1/2 lbs.
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