Retent vs Detent - What's the difference?
retent | detent |
That which is retained.
* Laurens Perseus Hickok, Empirical Psychology: Or, The Science of Mind from Experience
That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.
* 1972 , Mayer et al., United States Patent 3760640 , abstract:
As nouns the difference between retent and detent
is that retent is that which is retained while detent is that which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.As a verb detent is
the action of creating a detent mechanism to lock or unlock movement.retent
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(en noun)- The retent , when known, stands before us as if reflected and inverted in a mirror, the nearest events in the past being this way the nearest as actually remembered.
detent
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(wikipedia detent) (en noun)- A UHF tuner having 70 detent positions with fine tuning capability at all locations. Coarse tuning is accomplished via a toothed, detented disk and a spirally-extending rim having a follower lever operable therewith.