Clepsydra
[klepsidrә]
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:韦斯利
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Water-clock.
柏妮丝手打
解釋/意思:
n. an instrument used by the Greeks and Romans for measuring time by the trickling of water.
杜威手打
例句/造句/用法:
- The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- So far as we at present know there were four forms of time-measuring instruments known to antiquity--the sun-dial, the clepsydra or water clock, the hour-glass, and the graduated candle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Perhaps the earliest mechanical time measure was the clepsydra, or water clock. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- And in Rome the sun-dials, the clepsydras and the hour-glass were used for the same purpose, and more generally than in Greece, to regulate the hours of business and pleasure. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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