balance wheel

Origin of balance wheel

First recorded in 1660–70

Thus the body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.

A Winter Amid the Ice |Jules Verne
His ingenious system of weak and divided ministries, with himself for balance-wheel, was destroyed.

The Critical Period of American History |John Fiske
However, Mrs. Stannard will be there, and she's a balance-wheel.

Marion's Faith. |Charles King
Her grief was all the more impressive, as she was, as a general thing, the balance-wheel of the whole Sweetbriar machinery.

Rose of Old Harpeth |Maria Thompson Daviess

Those that adopted both metals served as a balance-wheel to steady with exactness their relative value.

Money |John P. Jones

balance wheel

a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece, thereby regulating its beat