Definitionn. any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring
Last update: September 23, 2015
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A still further facility was given to the use of the filar micrometer by the introduction of clockwork, which caused the telescope automatically to follow the diurnal motion of a star, and left the observer's hands entirely at liberty.' [Please select]
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It was an over-perfect machine which went like clockwork. [Please select]
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Wonderful organisation certainly, goes like clockwork. [Please select]
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But he saw that it was still a clockwork creature. [Please select]
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Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. [Please select]
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It is all run with the precision of clockwork. [Please select]
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[Illustration] Although so cleverly constructed, the Clockwork Man was far from perfect. [Please select]
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They bowled along smoothly and silently with the car working as perfectly as delicate clockwork. [Please select]
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It looked like suddenly releasing a clockwork toy wound up to breaking-point. [Please select]
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Furniture, collected as wanted, found its place; all the routine went as by clockwork. [Please select]
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It was the clockwork lizard that had been given him the Christmas before last. [Please select]
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