Clepsydra [noun]
Definition of Clepsydra:
device that tells time
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Sentence/Example of Clepsydra:
Perhaps the earliest mechanical time measure was the clepsydra, or water clock.
Time was measured by the clepsydra, and the expression indicates that the night was far spent and dawn near.
Indeed, the record on one tablet has been interpreted as noting that the astronomer's clock or clepsydra had stopped.
This water clock was called a clepsydra, the name being taken from two Greek words meaning 'thief of water.'
As the sound of the bells died away, the last drop of water fell from the clepsydra and marked the hour of midnight.
The Djyotisha also teaches the art of constructing a clepsydra, or water-clock.
The water-clock (clepsydra) served as a measure of time, especially in affairs connected with the administration of justice.
Time itself was measured by a clepsydra or water-clock, as well as by a gnomon or dial.
Anxious to turn the channel of her meditations in another direction, she rose from her seat to examine the clepsydra.
Plato is said to have invented a complicated clepsydra to indicate the 496 hours of the night as well as of the day.