Detent Definition

dĭ-tĕnt
detents
noun
detents
A part that stops or releases a movement, as a catch for controlling the striking of a clock.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
The action of creating a detent mechanism to lock or unlock movement.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Detent

Noun

Singular:
detent
Plural:
detents

Origin of Detent

  • French détente a loosening from Old French destente from feminine past participle of destendre to release des- de- tendre to stretch (from Latin tendere ten- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French détente, from Latin tendere (“to stretch”).

    From Wiktionary

Detent Sentence Examples

  • In dropping it dislodges the detent of the reducing slide, and the slide springs forward and reduces the flow of the sugar.

  • And when the short brush is stopped a rod from the shaft frees a spring detent which keeps the drum in position and tips it over.

  • The tea is shot out and falls into a receptacle below, and the drum makes a quarter of a revolution, and is again held in position by the detent with an empty compartment at top ready for the next filling.

  • Invented the cylindrical balance spring and the detached detent escapement (1782 ).

  • Thomas Earnshaw made further simplifications, including the spring detent escapement which needed no lubrication.

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Words Starting With

DDEDET

Words Ending With

TNTENT

Unscrambles

detent

Words Starting With D and Ending With T

Starts With D & Ends With TStarts With DE & Ends With TStarts With D & Ends With NT

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With D6 Letter Words Ending With T