| 单词 | horology |
| 释义 | ▪ I. horology1|hɒˈrɒlədʒɪ|
Also 4 orologie, 6 horologie.
[ad. L. hōrologi-um, ad. Gr. ὡρολόγιον.]
†1. = horologe 1; a dial, clock, or timepiece.
1388[see horologe 1]. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xliv. ii, In his left hande he had an horology. 1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. i. xlviii. (ed. 7) 363 The most part of Horologies or clocks in the East country. 1639Drummond of Hawthornden Consid. to Parlt. Wks. (1711) 186 That great horologies of towns be reformed according to the small sun-dials. 1798J. Gilchrist in Asiat. Res. V. 87 The simple rude horology described above suffices..the Asiatics in general. 1836I. Taylor Phys. Th. Another Life 29 This stupendous machinery [nature] is a vast horology—a register of duration to all rational tribes.
2. A rendering of horologium 3.
1890in Cent. Dict.
▪ II. hoˈrology2
[f. Gr. ὥρα time, hour + -o-logy, after Gr. type *ὡρολογία.]
The art or science of measuring time; the construction of horologes.
1819Pantologia s.v., The term horology is at present more particularly confined to the principles upon which the art of making clocks and watches is established. 1848Carpenter (title) Mechanical Philosophy, Horology, and Astronomy. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 381 About this time..horology was first applied to astronomical purposes. |
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