Usually means: Mechanism for powering mechanical devices.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. windup: Merriam-Webster
  2. windup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. windup: Vocabulary.com
  4. Windup, windup: Wordnik
  5. windup: Wiktionary
  6. windup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. windup (wind-up): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. windup: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. windup: Dictionary.com
  10. windup: Rhymezone
  11. windup: FreeDictionary.org
  12. windup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. windup: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. windup: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. windup: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. windup: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Windup)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of wind-up [The end or conclusion of something.]
▸ adjective:  Alternative form of wind-up [(of a machine) Needing to be wound up in order to function.]

Similar:
closing, completion, mop up, mechanical, culmination, pitching, sidewinding, clockwork, motor, protraction, more...

Opposite:
unwind, unwindment, unwindings, unwindable

Types:
key wound, spring wound, electric, more...

Phrases:
Integral windup, The Windup Girl, windup toy, more...

Adjectives:
reset, full, integral, anti, long, big, final, slow, elaborate, semi, torsional



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Similar:
closing, completion, mop up, mechanical, culmination, pitching, sidewinding, clockwork, motor, protraction, more...

Opposite:
unwind, unwindment, unwindings, unwindable

Types:
key wound, spring wound, electric, more...

Phrases:
Integral windup, The Windup Girl, windup toy, more...

Adjectives:
reset, full, integral, anti, long, big, final, slow, elaborate, semi, torsional



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