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2. Clock face - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Roman timekeeping - Wikipedia

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   A Roman era sundial on display at a museum in Side, Turkey. The Romans used various ancient timekeeping devices. According to Pliny, Sundials, or shadow clocks, were first introduced to Rome when a Greek sundial captured from the Samnites was set up publicly around 293-290 BC., [2] with another early known example being imported from Sicily in ...

4. Projection clock - Wikipedia

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   A projection clock (also called ceiling clock) is an analogue or digital clock equipped with a projector that creates an enlarged image of the clock face or display on any surface usable as a projection screen, most often the ceiling. [1] The clock can be placed almost anywhere if only the projected image must be seen.

5. Clock position - Wikipedia

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   The clock face with its clock positions is a heritage of Roman civilization, as is suggested by the survival of Roman numerals on old clocks and their cultural predecessors, sundials. The mechanical clock supplanted the sundial as the major timekeeper, while the Hindu–Arabic numeral system replaced the Roman as the number system in Europe in ...

6. U.S. October budget deficit jumps to $257 billion, handing ...

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   WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. budget deficit jumped nearly four-fold to $257 billion in October, a figure inflated by one-off factors, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday in a report that ...

7. Sundial - Wikipedia

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   [d] The hour-lines on the sundial are marked to show the positions of the shadow of the style when this clock shows whole numbers of hours, and are labelled with these numbers of hours. For example, when the clock reads 5:00, the shadow of the style is marked, and labelled "5" (or "V" in Roman numerals). If the hour-lines are not all marked in ...