tourbillon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rotating frame, containing the escapement of a clock or watch, that attempts to compensate 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 to the gravity of the Earth, so the errors would cancel out and make time impervious to gravity.
  2. A whirlwind.
  3. A kind of firework that gyrates in the air.
  4. Any part of a machine with a spiral movement.

词形变化

tourbillons plural

词源

Etymology tree
Old French torbeil
French -on
French tourbillonbor.
English tourbillon
Borrowed from French tourbillon (“whirlwind”).
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