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The 14 pages that link to Escapement, each with the reason it gives.
PendulumRelated: The escapement sustains a clock pendulum while counting its swings.
Mechanical clockRelated: It couples the clock’s moving gears to its timekeeping oscillation.
ClockRelated: It converts a regulator's cycles into measured advances of the hands.
AutomatonBroader topic: Escapements regulate the pacing of clockwork automata.
Tanaka HisashigeRelated: Escapements made the steady timing of his precision clocks possible.