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clock
noun
1 clock
A timepiece that shows the time of day.
Roget 114:
chronometry,
horometry†,
horology;
date,
epoch;
style,
era.
almanac,
calendar,
ephemeris;
register,
registry;
chronicle,
annals,
journal,
diary.
[Instruments for the measurement of time]
chronogram;
clock,
wall clock,
pendulum clock,
grandfather's clock,
cuckoo clock,
alarm clock,
clock radio;
watch,
wristwatch,
pocket watch,
stopwatch,
Swiss watch;
atomic clock,
digital clock,
analog clock,
quartz watch,
water clock;
chronometer,
chronoscope†,
chronograph;
repeater;
timekeeper,
timepiece;
dial,
sundial,
gnomon,
horologe,
pendulum,
hourglass,
clepsydra†;
ghurry†.
chronographer†,
chronologer,
chronologist,
timekeeper;
annalist.
calendar year,
leap year,
Julian calendar,
Gregorian calendar,
Chinese calendar,
Jewish calendar,
perpetual calendar,
Farmer's almanac,
fiscal year.
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Roget 466:
measurement,
admeasurement†,
mensuration,
survey,
valuation,
appraisement,
assessment,
assize;
estimate,
estimation;
dead reckoning,
reckoning
etc.
(numeration)
85;
gauging
etc.
v.;
horse power.
metrology,
weights and measures,
compound arithmetic.
measure,
yard measure,
standard,
rule,
foot rule,
compass,
calipers;
gage,
gauge;
meter,
line,
rod,
check;
dividers;
velo†.
flood mark,
high water mark;
Plimsoll line;
index
etc.
550.
scale;
graduation,
graduated scale;
nonius†;
vernier
etc.
(minuteness)
193.
[instruments for measuring]
bathometer,
galvanometer,
heliometer,
interferometer,
odometer,
ombrometer†,
pantometer†,
pluviometer†,
pneumatometer†,
pneumometer†,
radiometer,
refractometer,
respirometer,
rheometer,
spirometer†,
telemeter,
udometer†,
vacuometer†,
variometer†,
viameter†,
thermometer,
thermistor
(heat)
etc.
382,
barometer
(air)
etc.
338,
anemometer
(wind)
349,
dynamometer,
goniometer,
(angle)
244
meter;
landmark
etc.
(limit)
233;
balance,
scale
etc.
(weight)
319;
marigraph†,
pneumatograph†,
stethograph†;
rain gauge,
rain gage;
voltmeter
(volts),
ammeter
(amps);
spectrophotometer
(light absorbance);
mass spectrophotometer
(molecular mass);
geiger counter,
scintillation counter
(radioactivity);
pycnometer
(liquid density);
graduated cylinder,
volumetric flask
(volume);
radar gun
(velocity);
radar
(distance);
side-looking radar,
(shape, topography);
sonar
(depth in water);
light meter
(light intensity);
clock,
watch,
stopwatch,
chronometer
(time);
anemometer
(wind velocity);
densitometer
(color intensity).
measurability,
computability,
determinability†.
coordinates,
ordinate and abscissa,
polar coordinates,
latitude and longitude,
declination and right ascension,
altitude and azimuth.
geometry,
stereometry†,
hypsometry†;
metage†;
surveying,
land surveying;
geodesy,
geodetics†,
geodesia†;
orthometry†,
altimetry†;
cadastre [Fr.].
astrolabe,
armillary sphere†.
land surveyor;
geometer.
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Dutch: kilometerteller, teller, klokken, horloge, uurwerk, klok
Polish: zegar
verb
1 clock
Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time:
— He clocked the runners.
synonym: time.
Dutch: timen
Moby thesaurus: Big Ben, beat time, brood, chronometer, clock movement, clockworks, cover, fix the time, horologe, horologium, keep time, mark time, measure time, set, set the time, sit, ticker, time, timekeeper, timepiece, timer, turnip, watch, watchworks ... show more.
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