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tourbillons

tourbillons is the plural of tourbillon.

Meaning of tourbillon

Noun

tourbillon (plural tourbillons)

  1. A rotating frame, containing the escapement of a clock or watch, that significantly compensates for the effects of gravity.
    • Time was vulnerable to the force of gravity. So Breguet came up with the tourbillon, which isolated the balance wheel and escarpment off on a little platform of their own, geared to the third wheel, rotating about once a minute, assuming in the course of the day most positions in 3-D space relative...2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 457
  2. A whirlwind.
  3. A kind of firework that gyrates in the air.
  4. Any part of a machine with a spiral movement.

Questions about tourbillons

What is tourbillons the plural of?
Tourbillons is the plural of tourbillon.

Words near tourbillons in the dictionary

  1. Touray
  2. Tourays
  3. tourbillion
  4. tourbillions
  5. tourbillon
  6. tourbillons
  7. tourbus
  8. tourbuses
  9. tourbusses
  10. Tourcoing
  11. tourdion

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