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At :: At (prep.) The relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first..

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

Hall :: Hall (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock..

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..

Tachometer :: Tachometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork..

Regulator :: Regulator (n.) A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock..

Count-wheel :: Count-wheel (n.) The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

Metronome :: Metronome (n.) An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music..

Ten-o''clock :: Ten-o'clock (n.) A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star..

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

Hand :: Hand (n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock..

Close :: Close (v. i.) To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'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..

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

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..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel..

Horologiographer :: Horologiographer (n.) A maker of clocks, watches, or dials..

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march..

Perambulator :: Perambulator (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer..

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock..

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