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Timepiece :: Timepiece (n.) A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer..

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..

Observation :: Observation (n.) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc..

Dogwatch :: Dogwatch (n.) A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m..

Balance :: Balance (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary)..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes..

Mainspring :: Mainspring (n.) The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action..

Horologiography :: Horologiography (n.) The art of constructing clocks or dials; horography.

Tick :: Tick (n.) A quick, audible beat, as of a clock..

Ticktack :: Ticktack (n.) A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.

Isochronon :: Isochronon (n.) A clock that is designed to keep very accurate time.

Weight :: Weight (v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight..

Clock :: Clock (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking..

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..

Clepsydra :: Clepsydra (n.) A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix..

Noonday :: Noonday (n.) Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

Mirabilis :: Mirabilis (n.) A genus of plants. See Four-o'clock.

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.

Strickle :: Stricken (v. t.) Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.

Heliostat :: Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope..

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