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balance wheel

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Noun

a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat

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balance pendulum watch hairspring out of whack equilibrize equilibrise well-balanced equilibrate unbalance roulette wheel more...

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