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Synonym of Tower of the Winds, a monument in ancient Athens that included a clepsydra and multiple prominent sundials.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: Tower of the Winds
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Synonym of Solarium, a monument in ancient Rome whose obelisk was once believed to have acted as a sundial gnomon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: Solarium
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A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a pendulum clock. It lies between the constellations Fornax and Dorado.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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name
Alternative letter-case form of horologium, the book of hours in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
Topics: Christianity
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noun
Synonym of chronometer or clock, a timekeeping device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, historical
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Synonyms: chronometer or clock
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noun
Synonym of astronomical clock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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Synonyms: astronomical clock
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noun
Synonym of horologion, the book of hours in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Christianity
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Synonyms: horologion
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History
See horologium. As a location in Rome, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Augustī (“Sundial of Augustus”). As a constellation, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Oscillitorium (“Pendulum Clock”), coined in 1763 by the French astronomer De Lacaille to honor the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens, who had written a major work by that name.
From Latin horologium, from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). In reference to Eastern Orthodoxy, via its Byzantine Greek development. See menologium. Doublet of horologe.
Across languages
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