WATER CLOCK Definition & Meaning

water clock

noun

a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.

water clock

noun

any of various devices for measuring time that use the escape of water as the motive force

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Origin of water clock¹

First recorded in 1595–1605

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The ancient Egyptians invented the first water clocks and sundials more than 3,500 years ago.

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Rocky comes to know his land through the “water clock” he keeps, knowing what time of the year it is by water’s presence or absence.

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That tells you that it was a water clock because they’re going there to fill up buckets to put the fire out.

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They did not have mechanical clocks, but they had sundials and water clocks.

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On the left side the Dutch physicist Christian Huyghens is depicted demonstrating the first pendulum clock, which he invented in 1656, and on the right side there is a Roman senator holding a water clock.

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