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  2. Clock face - Wikipedia

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    A long minute hand makes one revolution every hour. The face may also include a second hand, which makes one revolution per minute. The term is less commonly used for the time display on digital clocks and watches. A second type of clock face is the 24-hour analog dial, widely used in military and other organizations that use 24-hour time. This ...

  3. Clock - Wikipedia

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    The standard clock face, known universally throughout the world, has a short "hour hand" which indicates the hour on a circular dial of 12 hours, making two revolutions per day, and a longer "minute hand" which indicates the minutes in the current hour on the same dial, which is also divided into 60 minutes. It may also have a "second hand ...

  4. Chronostasis - Wikipedia

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    This effect can extend apparent durations by up to half a second and is consistent with the idea that the visual system models events prior to perception. [ 2 ] A common occurrence of this illusion is known as the stopped-clock illusion , where the second hand of an analog clock appears to stay still for longer than normal when looking at it ...

  5. Wheel train - Wikipedia

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    It is called the third wheel because the mainspring barrel is the first wheel and the center wheel is the second wheel in the gear train. Fourth wheel which, in clocks and watches with the second hand in a subdial, turns once per minute and the arbor projects through the face and holds the second hand. The fourth wheel also turns the escape ...

  6. Time perception - Wikipedia

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    The most well-known version of this illusion is known as the stopped-clock illusion, wherein a subject's first impression of the second-hand movement of an analog clock, subsequent to one's directed attention (i.e., saccade) to the clock, is the perception of a slower-than-normal second-hand movement rate (the second-hand of the clock may ...

  7. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    The first clock known to strike regularly on the hour, a clock with a verge and foliot mechanism, is recorded in Milan in 1336. [96] By 1341, clocks driven by weights were familiar enough to be able to be adapted for grain mills, [97] and by 1344 the clock in London's Old St Paul's Cathedral had been replaced by one with an escapement. [98]

  8. The Doomsday Clock Just Moved Closer to Midnight - AOL

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    The Doomsday Clock, seen here in 2018 when it was moved to two minutes to midnight, has now been set to 89 seconds to midnight. Credit - Carolyn Kaster—AP Today, the Doomsday Clock was set to 89 ...

  9. Quartz clock - Wikipedia

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    Standard-quality 32 768 Hz resonators of this type are warranted to have a long-term accuracy of about six parts per million (0.0006%) at 31 °C (87.8 °F): that is, a typical quartz clock or wristwatch will gain or lose 15 seconds per 30 days (within a normal temperature range of 5 to 35 °C or 41 to 95 °F) or less than a half second clock ...