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  • Thumbnail for Mechanical watch
    wheels, and jewelling progressed up the going train toward the barrel. A 17 jewel watch has every bearing from the balance wheel to the center wheel pivot bearings...
    38 KB (4,505 words) - 22:00, 7 August 2024
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    two pivot jewels and an impulse jewel for the balance wheel, two pivot jewels and two pallet jewels for the pallet fork, and two pivot jewels each for...
    7 KB (705 words) - 01:43, 25 July 2024
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    Dharmachakra (redirect from Dharma wheel)
    Taxila coin with wheel and Buddhist symbols Coin found in Afghanistan, 50 BCE – c. 30 CE, at the latest before 50 CE. Three Jewels, or Triratna. Eastern...
    30 KB (3,040 words) - 23:32, 17 August 2024
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    transportation. bookrags.com Archived 27 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine – Wheel and axle Jewel, Elizabeth (2006). The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus. Oxford...
    45 KB (4,900 words) - 00:52, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Incabloc shock protection system
    spring-loaded mounting system for the jewel bearings that support the balance wheel in a mechanical watch, to protect the wheel's delicate pivots from damage in...
    3 KB (343 words) - 21:47, 30 August 2024
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    Bhavacakra (redirect from Wheel of Life)
    Pāli: bhavacakka; Tibetan: སྲིད་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ, Wylie: srid pa'i 'khor lo) or wheel of life is a visual teaching aid and meditation tool symbolically representing...
    27 KB (3,219 words) - 00:07, 20 July 2024
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    center in a disk on the balance wheel's shaft. To reduce friction, the pallets are made of precisely shaped pieces of ruby jewel. The pallet which the teeth...
    4 KB (427 words) - 07:02, 29 August 2022
  • Wheel bearing may refer to: Ball bearing Bearing (mechanical) Fluid bearing Jewel bearing Journal bearing Needle roller bearing Plain bearing Rolling-element...
    342 bytes (67 words) - 18:17, 12 April 2016
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    A prayer wheel, or mani wheel, is a cylindrical wheel (Tibetan: འཁོར་ལོ།, Wylie: 'khor lo, Oirat: кюрдэ) for Buddhist recitation. The wheel is installed...
    18 KB (1,916 words) - 13:48, 22 June 2024
  • Śūnyatā. The Mani Jewel makes its first appearance in the Pali Nikāyas where it is mentioned as one of the seven treasures owned by a "wheel-turning king"...
    6 KB (888 words) - 06:14, 31 March 2024
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    the exit tooth against the exit pallet jewel (called the draw). This means that in order to unlock the wheel it must be turned backwards by a small amount...
    10 KB (1,429 words) - 13:09, 18 June 2024
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    within a triratana, over a Dharmacakra wheel, on the Torana gate at Sanchi. 1st century BCE The Triratna or "Three Jewels" symbol, on a Buddha footprint (bottom...
    24 KB (2,484 words) - 11:57, 1 September 2024
  • quality clocks their arbors have jewel bearings. The going train in a modern clock or watch consists of: First or great wheel attached and ratcheted to the...
    10 KB (1,338 words) - 16:21, 11 January 2024
  • been expressed as "praise to the jewel in the lotus", or as a declarative aspiration, possibly meaning "I in the jewel-lotus". Padma is the Sanskrit for...
    31 KB (3,299 words) - 17:33, 3 September 2024
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    A balance wheel, or balance, is the timekeeping device used in mechanical watches and small clocks, analogous to the pendulum in a pendulum clock. It...
    27 KB (3,282 words) - 13:19, 15 August 2024
  • Spirit is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Jewel, released on November 17, 1998, by Atlantic Records. Singles include "Hands", "Down...
    21 KB (1,363 words) - 11:36, 15 August 2024
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    wheel. Wheels that were completely made of metal (single or multiple pieces) gradually became widespread around the 1930s. List of auto parts Jewel,...
    16 KB (1,922 words) - 17:02, 16 July 2024
  • The wheel of time or wheel of history (also known as Kalachakra) is a concept found in several religious traditions and philosophies, notably religions...
    8 KB (960 words) - 01:25, 21 April 2024
  • mythology, the two tide jewels, named hirutama/kanju (干珠, "[tide-]ebbing jewel") and mitsutama/manju (満珠, "[tide-]flowing jewel"), were magical gems that...
    28 KB (4,330 words) - 09:13, 13 June 2024
  • Indra's net (also called Indra's jewels or Indra's pearls, Sanskrit Indrajāla, Chinese: 因陀羅網) is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of Śūnyatā...
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