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  2. Tenor (website) - Wikipedia

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    On April 25, 2017, Tenor introduced an app that makes GIFs available in MacBook Pro's Touch Bar. [10] [11] Users can scroll through GIFs and tap to copy it to the clipboard. [12] On September 7, 2017, Tenor announced an SDK for Unity and Apple's ARKit. It allows developers to integrate GIFs into augmented reality apps and games. [13] [14] [15] [7]

  3. Anchor escapement - Wikipedia

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    The backward motion of the escape wheel during part of the cycle, called recoil, is one of the disadvantages of the anchor escapement.It results in a temporary reversal of the entire wheel train back to the driving weight with each tick of the clock, causing extra wear in the wheel train, excessive wear to the gear teeth, and inaccuracy.

  4. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    However, the clock remained displaying two minutes to midnight. After the Doctor averted the true catastrophe - an accidental bacteriological disaster, the clock began moving backwards. [56] The Doomsday Clock is featured in Yael Bartana's What if Women Ruled the World, which premiered on July 5, 2017 at the Manchester International Festival. [57]

  5. Escapement - Wikipedia

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    Animation of anchor escapement, widely used in pendulum clocks. An escapement is a mechanical linkage in mechanical watches and clocks that gives impulses to the timekeeping element and periodically releases the gear train to move forward, advancing the clock's hands.

  6. Lever escapement - Wikipedia

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    An escapement is a mechanical linkage that delivers impulses to the timepiece's balance wheel, keeping it oscillating back and forth, and with each swing of the balance wheel allows the timepiece's gear train to advance a fixed amount, thus moving the hands forward at a steady rate. The escapement is what makes the "ticking" sound in mechanical ...

  7. Clock position - Wikipedia

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    The clock face with its clock positions is a heritage of Roman civilization, as is suggested by the survival of Roman numerals on old clocks and their cultural predecessors, sundials. The mechanical clock supplanted the sundial as the major timekeeper, while the Hindu–Arabic numeral system replaced the Roman as the number system in Europe in ...

  8. Giphy - Wikipedia

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    In August 2013, Giphy expanded beyond a search engine to allow users to post, embed and share GIFs on Facebook. [10] [11] [12] Giphy was then recognized as a Top 100 Website of 2013, according to PC Magazine. [13] Three months later, Giphy integrated with Twitter to enable users to share GIFs by simply sharing a GIF's URL. [14]

  9. Flopped image - Wikipedia

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    In photography and graphic arts a flopped image is a static or moving image that is generated by a reversal of an original image across a vertical axis, as in a conventional mirror image. This is opposed to a flipped image , which means an image reversed across a horizontal axis.