mainspring in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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Energy is stored in the mainspring manually by "winding it up", turning a key attached to a ratchet which twists the mainspring tighter.
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A further advantage of this device is that the mainspring can not be broken by excessive manual winding.
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This is particularly true in watches and portable clocks which are powered by a mainspring, which provides a diminishing drive force as it unwinds.
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The unresolved land reform situation was again the mainspring for renewed political activity.
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That view was the mainspring of what was, in essence, voluntary barbarism.
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The force of the mainspring then turns the clock's wheels as it unwinds, until the next winding is needed.
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No, the mainspring of what we did was because it was fun.
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To indicate the time and to transfer the torque from mainspring to the escapement mainly used aforesaid nested planetary gearings.
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If it were, then under the tremendous tension of the mainspring, it would require a huge force on the trigger to disengage the sear.
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He also invented the floating mainspring going barrel.
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