Clepsydra
[klepsidrә]
Definition
(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.
Typist: Wesley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Water-clock.
Edited by Bernice
Definition
n. an instrument used by the Greeks and Romans for measuring time by the trickling of water.
Typed by Dewey
Examples
- The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Perhaps the earliest mechanical time measure was the clepsydra, or water clock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Marietta