It describes time as being like a coiled spring, which can be pushed together, so that some moments in time can be very near a moment in another time.
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Wachtel also said the stock market had become a " coiled spring " in recent weeks, ready to snap back after prolonged selling pushed share prices to bargain-basement levels.
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I remember them from about fifty years ago as a coiled spring which you could position at the top of a staircase and it would walk down to the bottom.
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The amount of power produced by a coiled spring as it unwinds is hugely variable compared to the " almost " constant amount of power produced by a falling weight.
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As Yoshii left the field with one out in the inning, the untiring Wendell came bounding out of the bullpen like a coiled spring for his sixth appearance in six games.
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Clad in sea-foam scrubs, paper skullcap and a heavy gold cross that would do the pope proud, he is a coiled spring of adrenaline stalking the linoleum-tiled halls of a Dallas hospital.
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Scoville's modification was to place a coiled spring with an axis parallel to the plane of clip closure as described in the article Scoville WB : Miniature torsion bar spring aneurysm clip.
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In the wide-ranging newstatesman interview about terrorists, asylum seekers and shooting sprees by drug gangs in British cities, Blunkett said British society was " like a coiled spring " _ violent and angry.
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"Whenever this market sells off, it's like a coiled spring just looking for bullish news, " said John Kilduff, a broker and analyst for Fimat USA Inc ., a New York brokerage firm.
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The evolution of the spring-driven clock depended upon the invention of a device to equalize the changing force of a coiled spring because the power of a spring increases as it is wound.