balance wheel

English

Noun

balance wheel (plural balance wheels)

1. The timekeeping device normally used in mechanical watches and small clocks, consisting of a wheel which oscillates due to a coiled spring.
   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, pages 13–14:

     A mantelpiece clock with rackety balance wheel makes the only sound.

Coordinate terms

• swing wheel

Translations

timepiece mechanism

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: volant regulador m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 擺輪／摆轮 (baai² leon⁴)

  Mandarin: 擺輪／摆轮 (zh) (bǎilún)

• Czech: setrvačka f, nepokoj (cs) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: onrust (nl) m or f
• Finnish: liipotin (fi)
• German: Unruh (de), Steigerad n
• Irish: luascroth m
• Italian: bilanciere (it) m
• Polish: balans (pl) m, balansjer (pl) m
• Russian: пружи́на (ru) f (pružína)
• Swedish: oro (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: во́лос (uk) m (vólos), волосо́к (volosók), пружи́нка f (pružýnka)