Definition of clock

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Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person..

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Electro-chronograph :: Electro-chronograph (n.) An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph..
Clock :: Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
Dor :: Dor (n.) A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock..
Carcel Lamp :: Carcel lamp () A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork..
Close :: Close (v. i.) To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock..
Noonday :: Noonday (n.) Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.
Limbat :: Limbat (n.) A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later..
Clock :: Clock (n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius)..
Chronograph :: Chronograph (n.) An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity..
Four-o''clock :: Four-o'clock (n.) A plant of the genus Mirabilis. There are about half a dozen species, natives of the warmer parts of America. The common four-o'clock is M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady..
Hand :: Hand (n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock..
Horography :: Horography (n.) The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials..
Weight :: Weight (v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight..
Ten-o''clock :: Ten-o'clock (n.) A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star..
Low :: Low (superl.) Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer..
Strickle :: Stricken (v. t.) Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.
Clock :: Clock (v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck..
Count-wheel :: Count-wheel (n.) The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.
Sharp :: Sharp (adv.) Precisely; exactly; as, we shall start at ten o'clock sharp..
Siderostat :: Siderostat (n.) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.
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