tourbillon

tourbillon

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  1. pyörre, pyörremyrsky

Käännökset

englanti A rotating frame, containing the escapement of a clock or watch, that attempts to compensate for the effects of gravity.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 514:
Time was vulnerable to the force of gravity. So Breguet came up with the tourbillon, which isolated the balance wheel and escarpment off on a little platform of their own
whirlwind
eddy, whirlpool
puhekieltä vortex
puhekieltä whirl, whirlwind, maelstrom
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tourbillon rimmaa näiden kanssa:

dralon, salon, nailon, lakkanailon, kreppinailon, triatlon, nylon

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