Words starting with escapemec
Maybe these words will be useful:
- escapement — A mechanism in a clock or watch that alternately checks and releases the train by a fixed amount and transmits a periodic impulse from the spring or weight to the balance wheel or pendulum.
- escapements — Plural form of escapement.
- escape sequence — (character) (Or "escape code") A series of characters starting with the escape character (ASCII 27). Escape sequences are often used to control display devices such as VDUs. An escape sequence might change the colour of subsequent text, reassign keys on the keyboard, change printer settings or reposition the cursor. The escape sequences of the DEC vt100 video terminal have become a de facto standard for this purpose. The term is also used for any sequence of characters that temporarily suspends normal processing of a stream of characters to perform some special function. For example, the Hayes modem uses the sequence "+++" to escape to command mode in which characters are interpreted as commands to the modem itself rather than as data to pass through.
- escape artist — escapologist
- escape chute — a fabric tube or chute hinged to the wall of a stairwell and used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- escape clause — clause that releases sb from a contract
- escape cock — a valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
- escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- escape hatch — door to an emergency exit
- escape key — a key on a computer keyboard used to leave a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence