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fusee

[fyü′zē]
(horology)
In a timepiece, a conical pulley with grooves in a spiral configuration from which a cord or chain unwinds onto a barrel containing the spring; the increasing diameter of the pulley compensates for the lessening power of the spring.
(veterinary medicine)
A bony growth occurring on a horse's leg. Also spelled fuzee.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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2000 Fusee Merlot, California: Like its cabernet counterpart, this wine is lighter, fresh and has just the right amount of acidity.
"In early and later poorer quality clocks, the power of the spring inside the barrel is transferred to the fusee via a gut or wire line," Edward said.
Key to its accuracy is the fusee movement, a cone-shaped pulley wound with a chain, not unlike that found on a bicycle, attached to the mainspring barrel.
Several very nice Vienna wall clocks, the ones with weights to drive them are the best usually, some fusee movement circular wall clocks, drop-dial clocks and many American Ansonia clocks.
Early clocks had fusee movements with verge escapements, and this early form continued until the end of the Georgian period when it was entirely superseded by the technically superior anchor escapement.
Une fusee Falcon 9 de la societe privee SpaceX doit decoller chargee des deux nouveaux satellites mardi a 19H47 GMT de la base americaine Vandenberg, en Californie.
Quelques jours apres l'explosion d'une fusee qui devait ravitailler la Station spatiale internationale sort "Interstellar", une ode a la conquete de l'espace realisee par Christopher Nolan et portee par Matthew McConaughey.
cased In about 1726, John Harrison enhanced the accuracy of the fusee even further by adding a maintaining power spring to keep his marine chronometers running during winding.
Depuis fevrier 2012, Pyongyang a effectue deux tirs de fusee (dont un reussi en decembre), consideres par les Occidentaux comme des essais deguises de missiles balistiques, un essai nucleaire qui lui a valu un nouveau train de sanctions a l'ONU, annonce le redemarrage de ses activites nucleaires et positionne des missiles de moyenne portee sur sa cote est.
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