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A machine for measuring time indicating the hour and other divisions in ordinary mechanical clocks for domestic or office use the time is indicated on a typically circular face or dial plate containing two hands pointing to numbers engraved on the periphery of the face thus showing the hours and minutes The works of a mechanical clock 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 In electrical or electronic clocks the time may be indicated as on a mechanical clock by hands but may also be indicated by direct digital readout with the hours and minutes in normal Arabic numerals The readout using hands is often called analog to distinguish it from the digital readout Some clocks also indicate the seconds Clocks are not adapted like the watch to be carried on the person Specialized clocks such as atomic clocks may be constructed on different principles and may have a very high precision for use in scientific observa...
clocking
the time taken to traverse a measured course as it was a world record clocking...
Clockwork
The machinery of a clock or machinery resembling that of a clock machinery which produces regularity of movement...
counterclockwise
in the opposite direction to that in which the hands of a clock rotate as viewed from in front of the clock face of rotatory motion or spiral direction Opposite of clockwise or right handed...
Minute jack
A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks called also jack of the clock house...
Burglary
Burglary [fr. burg, Sax., a house, and larron, a thief, fr. latro, Lat.]. At Common Law burglary is the breaking and entering of the dwelling-house of another in the night-time with intent to commit a felony therein. S. 25 of the (English) Larceny Act, 1916, provides that-Means the act of breaking and entering an inhabited structure (as a house) especially at night with intent to commit a felony (as murder or larcency), the act of entering or remaining unlawfully (as after closing to the public) in a building with intent to commit a crime (as a felony). The crime of burglary was originally defined under the common law to protect people, since there were other laws, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 61.Burglary, is the common law offence of breaking and entering another's dwelling at night with the intent to commit a felony. The modern statutory offence of breaking and entering any building not just a dwelling and not only at night - with the intent to commit a felony....
Balance wheel
A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer answering to the pendulum of a clock often called simply a balance...
Clepsydra
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...
Clocklike
Like a clock or like clockwork mechanical...
clocks
European weed naturalized in the southwestern U S and Mexico Erodium cicutarium having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish lavender flowers followed by slender pinlike fruits that stick straight up it is often grown for forage...
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