enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_timekeeping_devices

   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]

3. Time clock - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_clock

   [The first] is a time card recorder, which is a clock so made that it will automatically stamp on a card inserted in a slot in the clock by the workman the time of his arrival and of his departure. The cards are made to hold a record covering the pay period and need no attention from a timekeeper or clerk until the termination of this period.

4. 24-hour clock - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock

   24-hour digital clock in Miaoli HSR station.. A time of day is written in the 24-hour notation in the form hh:mm (for example 01:23) or hh:mm:ss (for example, 01:23:45), where hh (00 to 23) is the number of full hours that have passed since midnight, mm (00 to 59) is the number of full minutes that have passed since the last full hour, and ss (00 to 59) is the number of seconds since the last ...

5. Chronometry - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronometry

   The hourglass is often used as a symbol representing the passage of time Clocks; a watch-maker seated at his workbench. Chronometry [a] or horology [b] (lit. ' the study of time ') is the science studying the measurement of time and timekeeping. [3]

6. Binary clock - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_clock

   A binary clock is a clock that displays the time of day in a binary format. Originally, such clocks showed each decimal digit of sexagesimal time as a binary value, but presently binary clocks also exist which display hours, minutes, and seconds as binary numbers. Most binary clocks are digital, although analog varieties exist. True binary ...

7. Clock face - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_face

   Longcase clocks (grandfather clocks) typically use Roman numerals for the hours. Clocks using only Arabic numerals first began to appear in the mid-18th century. [citation needed] The clock face is so familiar that the numbers are often omitted and replaced with unlabeled graduations (marks), particularly in the case of watches. Occasionally ...