Definition of clock

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

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Regulator :: Regulator (n.) A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock..
Slow :: Slow (superl.) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow..
Hand :: Hand (n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock..
Isochronon :: Isochronon (n.) A clock that is designed to keep very accurate time.
Detent :: Detent (n.) 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..
Hall :: Hall (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock..
Rule :: Rule (a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock..
Pendulum :: Pendulum (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.
Horologer :: Horologer (n.) A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.
Disperse :: Disperse (v. i.) To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse..
Tick :: Tick (n.) A quick, audible beat, as of a clock..
Horologiographer :: Horologiographer (n.) A maker of clocks, watches, or dials..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock..
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..
Ticker :: Ticker (n.) One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc..
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece..
Clocklike :: Clocklike (a.) Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
Clock :: Clock (n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes..
Hydroscope :: Hydroscope (n.) A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube..
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
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