A clock face is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays time through the use of a flat dial with reference marks, and revolving pointers...
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clock Castle clock Clockarium Clock as herald of the Industrial Revolution (Lewis Mumford) Clock face Clock drift Clock ident Clock network Clock of the Long...
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Clock Face is a village and area of the town of St Helens, England, 4 mi (6.4 km) south of the town centre. It is a ward within the Metropolitan Borough...
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atomic clock that controls the tower clock faces. The building is topped by a four-faced clock, visible from 25 kilometres (16 miles) away. The clock is the...
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A clock-face schedule, also cyclic schedule, is a timetable system under which public transport services run at consistent intervals, as opposed to a timetable...
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permanent working clocks with the largest faces in the world. Entries include all clocks with faces at least 4 m (13 ft) in diameter. Clocks can be located...
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Big Ben (redirect from Palace of Westminster Clock Tower, Great Clock of Westminster)
dials of the clock are 22.5 feet (6.9 m) in diameter. The clock uses its original mechanism and was the largest and most accurate four-faced striking and...
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clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock,...
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quarter-hour, with bells tolling for each full hour. The clock face of the Spasskaya Tower clock, was formerly divided into 17 equal parts, each corresponding...
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Clock towers are a specific type of structure that house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers...
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structures with clocks on their exterior that can be seen from the ground. The list includes various structures with a working clock face or faces on their exteriors...
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arranged in a circular fashion like a clock face with the 2♥ on the "five o' clock" position, 3♠ on the "six o' clock" position, and so on. These cards will...
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Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking. The clock was named one of Time's Best Inventions of 2008. The clock's face is a rippling 24-carat gold-plated stainless...
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Disc parking (redirect from Clock disc)
side that makes the clock face turn around its center point, allowing it to show different clock times. The standard parking clock can show a full twelve...
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Modular arithmetic (redirect from Clock arithmetic)
addition would result in 7 + 8 = 15, but 15:00 reads as 3:00 on the clock face because clocks "wrap around" every 12 hours and the hour number starts over at...
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A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it...
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An astronomical clock, horologium, or orloj is a clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astronomical information, such as the relative positions...
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of the vessel, using the clock analogy. In this analogy, the observer imagines the vessel located on a horizontal clock face with the front at 12:00....
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A world clock is a clock which displays the time for various cities around the world. The display can take various forms: The clock face can incorporate...
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A Japanese clock (和時計, wadokei) is a mechanical clock that has been made to tell traditional Japanese time, a system in which daytime and nighttime are...
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weight design for updating the clock face because the clock design already assumes regular human maintenance. However, the clock is designed to keep time even...
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independent of the master clock. It takes only about 58.5 seconds to circle the face; then the hand pauses briefly at the top of the clock. It starts a new rotation...
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the Duquesne Brewery Clock was the largest single-face clock in the world when it was installed in 1933. Over the years its face has been used to advertise...
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The Calendar Clock Face is an unusual painting from c.1500 by an unknown painter in the collection of the M - Museum Leuven. The moveable parts and all...
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A floral clock, or flower clock, is a large decorative clock with the clock face formed by carpet bedding, usually found in a park or other public recreation...
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projection clock (also called ceiling clock) is an analogue or digital clock equipped with a projector that creates an enlarged image of the clock face or display...
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Wells Cathedral (section Clock)
of the clock, jousting knights appear above the clock face. On the outer wall of the transept, opposite Vicars' Hall, is a second clock face of the same...
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numerals persists. One place they are often seen is on clock faces. For instance, on the clock of Big Ben (designed in 1852), the hours from 1 to 12 are...
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1905 and 1909. Inspired by St Mark's Campanile, the tower features four clock faces, four bells, and lighted beacons at its top, and was the tallest building...
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in a clock face, to a single hole placed within the circle. Alternative names include Clock-Golf, Round the Clock Golf, and Golf Around the Clock. Jaques...
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