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A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

compensation. Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. -- Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.…

The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.

hat by a perfect clock going uniformly all the year round. -- Equation clock or watch, a timepiece made to exhibit the differences between mean solar and apparent solar time. Knight. -- Normal equation. See under Normal. -- Personal equation (Astron.), the difference between an observed result and the true qualities…

The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.

ery to drive the train. (b) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up. -- Going forth. (Script.) (a) Outlet; way of exit. "Every going forth of the sanctuary." Ezek. xliv. 5. (b) A limit; a border. "The going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea." Num.…

The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial. Shak.

The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour At what hour shall we meet

spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece. Baby jumper. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bounty jumper. See under Bounty.

The hand of a timepiece.

The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.

A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.

A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.

Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel (Horol.), a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.

A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.