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Definition of Tourbillon
1. Noun. A rotating frame, containing the escapement of a clock or watch, that attempts to compensate for the effects of gravity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tourbillon
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tourbillon
Literary usage of Tourbillon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (1874)
"Consequently it would not be of much use for marine chronometers, which are always
kept horizontal by being set in gimbals. The tourbillon frame is driven ..."
2. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Robert Haldane, Charles George Warnford Lock (1883)
"There is a small hole in their centre through which a flat-headed nail is driven
into the tourbillon at its balance point. The stick must, of course, ..."
3. The Watch & Clock Makers' Handbook, Dictionary and Guide by Frederick James Britten (1896)
"tourbillon.'] — A carriage in which the escapement of a watch is fitted so that
... The idea of the tourbillon, one of the almost numberless inventions of ..."
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