self-winding

1. 1.

   designed so that manual winding is unnecessary

   “a self-winding watch”

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Questions about self-winding

What does self-winding mean?

self-winding means "designed so that manual winding is unnecessary".

How many syllables are in self-winding?

self-winding has 3 syllables and divides as self--win-ding under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is self-winding a common word?

self-winding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.