Usually means: Regulates time in mechanical watches.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word balance wheel:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. balance wheel: Merriam-Webster
  2. balance wheel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. balance wheel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. balance wheel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. balance wheel: Vocabulary.com
  6. balance-wheel, balance wheel: Wordnik
  7. balance wheel: Wiktionary
  8. balance wheel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. balance wheel: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Balance wheel, balance wheel: Dictionary.com
  11. Balance wheel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Balance wheel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. balance wheel: Rhymezone
  14. Balance wheel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. balance wheel: FreeDictionary.org
  16. balance wheel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. balance wheel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. balance wheel: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. balance wheel: Legal dictionary
  2. balance wheel: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. balance wheel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. balance wheel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. balance wheel: Idioms

(Note: See balance_wheels as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (balance wheel)

noun:  The timekeeping device normally used in mechanical watches and small clocks, consisting of a wheel which oscillates due to a coiled spring.

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