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  2. The Clock (patience) - Wikipedia

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    The Clock, sometimes also called German Clock to distinguish it from the similarly named shuttling game of Clock, is a game of patience or card solitaire played with 52 cards of a French deck. The game has 13 foundations for placing cards, each with a specific card value corresponding to the 12 hours of a clock.

  3. Hourglass - Wikipedia

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    An hourglass (or sandglass, sand timer, or sand clock) is a device used to measure the passage of time. It comprises two glass bulbs connected vertically by a narrow neck that allows a regulated flow of a substance (historically sand) from the upper bulb to the lower one due to gravity. Typically, the upper and lower bulbs are symmetric so that ...

  4. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    The English word clock first appeared in Middle English as clok, cloke, or clokke. The origin of the word is not known for certain; it may be a borrowing from French or Dutch, and can perhaps be traced to the post-classical Latin clocca ('bell'). 7th century Irish and 9th century Germanic sources recorded clock as meaning 'bell'. [74]

  5. Word problem (mathematics education) - Wikipedia

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    Word problem from the Līlāvatī (12th century), with its English translation and solution. In science education, a word problem is a mathematical exercise (such as in a textbook, worksheet, or exam) where significant background information on the problem is presented in ordinary language rather than in mathematical notation.

  6. Clock - Wikipedia

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    An analog pendulum clock made around 18th century. A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time.The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units such as the day, the lunar month, and the year.

  7. Roman timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The daytime canonical hours of the Catholic Church take their names from the Roman clock: the prime, terce, sext and none occur during the first (prīma) = 6 am, third (tertia) = 9 am, sixth (sexta) = 12 pm, and ninth (nōna) = 3 pm, hours of the day. The English term noon is also derived from the ninth hour.

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