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hairspring

[′her‚spriŋ]
(horology)
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Rolex developed its own very special hairspring, the Parachrom, patented in 2000.
The seniors answered a wide range of questions such as what product of everyday use has components like case, hand, bezel, crown, stem and a hairspring?; what technology to settle goal disputes will be used in the 2014 World Cup?; which King of Macedonia was tutored by Great Greek Philosopher Aristotle?; first flying species of which bird was discovered while filming for BBC in 2008?; what is a system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of waves which are reflected off the object back to the source?.
The most fundamental components of a mechanical watch are a spring-barrel power source and a mechanical escapement with a hairspring, balance wheel, and levers.
SOUTH KOREA A South Korean protester in Seoul denouncing the annual joint military exercises between South Korea and the US, taking place despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and launching a nuclear attack on the US NORWAY Royal Marine Captain Chris McGinley takes a picture of the Northern Lights at Porsanger Garrison, during Exercise Hairspring 2013, which focuses on cold weather survival and war training for Royal Marines Commando Reservists in the mountains near Lakselv ALASKA Aliy Zirkle poles on her way into Unalakleet during the famously tough Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, with 221 of the 998 miles from Anchorage to Nome still to cover
pallida belongs to the group of Bearded Irises (Barbatae are the species with flowers, bearing a beard of multicellular hairsprings on the outer perianth lobes) from the Iris section of the series Elatae Lawrence.
There is still the idea of motion being measured, but instead of hairsprings and balance wheels, what's being measured is the absorption spectroscopy of cold atoms oscillating in atomic fountains.
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