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An academic quarter (localized into various languages in the countries where it is practised [a]) is the quarter-hour (15 minute) discrepancy between the defined start time for a lecture or lesson ("per schema") and the actual starting time, at some universities in most European countries.
Both the third quarter and the full hour require the fourth quarter bell, B 3, to be rung twice in quick succession (changes 4,5,1 and 2,3,4,5); too quick for the hammer to draw back for the second strike. To address this, the fourth quarter bell is equipped with two hammers on opposite sides and becomes, effectively, a fifth bell for the ...
Hours on a 24-hour clock ("military time") are expressed as "hundred" or "hundred hours". [7] (1000 is read "ten hundred" or "ten hundred hours"; 10 pm would be "twenty-two hundred".) Fifteen and thirty minutes past the hour is expressed as "a quarter past" or "after" [8] and "half past", respectively, from their fraction of the hour. Fifteen ...
kè has been defined as 1 ⁄ 96 of a day since 1628, so the modern kè equals 15 minutes and each double hour contains exactly 8 kè. [2] Since then, kè has been used as shorthand to talk about time in 1 ⁄ 8 of a double hour or 1 ⁄ 4 of a single hour. Their usage is similar to using "quarter hour" for 15 minutes or "half an hour" for 30 ...
The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods: a.m. (from Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday") and p.m. (from Latin post meridiem, translating to "after midday"). [1] [2] Each period consists of 12 hours numbered: 12 (acting as 0), [3] 1, 2, 3, 4
A Cuckoo clock striking the 8th hour with mechanical automaton and the sound of a Cuckoo's call to mark the hours. Specialized types of striking clocks: Chiming clock – Strikes on the hours and chimes on the quarter hours, often playing fragments of a tune such as Westminster Quarters.
The sonnerie is implemented differently in clocks. On every quarter-hour it strikes the number of quarter hours audibly on a gong, and then the number of hours since the last hour on a second gong. For instance, in a 3 weight Vienna regulator wall clock, at 6:15 it would strike once on a high pitched gong, then strike six times on a lower ...
A quarter hour must include at least 20 clock hours of instruction. For courses that are not required to use the conversion between credit hours and clock hours, a further definition is given in the Federal Student Aid Handbook of: [16] A credit hour is an amount of work that reasonably approximates not less than