(n.) An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Broadly speaking, the further north you go, the nastier the predominant reading matter borrowed, a pattern that might invite sociological, meteorological and even horological (fewer winter daylight hours) explanations.
Timepiece
Definition:
(n.) A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
Example Sentences:
(1) "No, I did not," Pistorius said, "except for the police stealing my watches, my lady," he said referring to luxury timepieces that had gone missing at the Steenkamp crime scene.
(2) After it emerged that the Brazilian FA had handed out 65 designer watches worth more than £1m at the World Cup Dyke said he had no idea the timepiece was worth so much and that he would return it as requested .
(3) The presence of timepieces and patients' use of television were associated with higher levels of mental clarity.
(4) Murray frantically searched for the £2,500 timepiece before members of his box finally told him to look in his bag.
(5) In Phase I (12 weeks), 36 patients were randomly assigned to a medication vial equipped with a cap containing a digital timepiece that displays the last time the cap was removed.
(6) Covered stands shelter nearly 10,000 seats while an executive box looks down from what, thanks to its timepiece, can only be the clock end.
(7) Results of the two-phase study showed statistically significant increases in medication compliance associated with statistically and clinically significant reductions in blood pressure for all patients using the timepiece cap.
(8) Phase II (12 weeks) combined use of the timepiece cap with other compliance aids: a pocket-size card for recording blood pressure and a blood pressure cuff for self-monitoring.
(9) A miniature gold carriage clock had been placed at his table setting, but he still checked his wrist – modest shirt buttons, no cufflinks, under a sober black suit – for his slightly battered brown wristwatch, a far cry from Sarkozy's famously expensive timepieces.
(10) The French actor Gérard Depardieu has partnered with Swiss watch manufacturer Cvstos to launch a line of new timepieces under the banner "Proud to be Russian".
(11) Patients using the timepiece cap and the card had an average compliance rate of 98.7% with mean decreases of 11 mm Hg in systolic pressure (P less than .01) and 7.64 Hg mm in diastolic pressure (P = .0001).
(12) Viewed from our lofty 21st-century vantage point, it already seems something of a timepiece: a snapshot of a specific era in US culture; a tenuous accessory to crimes that have been duly tried, sentenced and consigned to history.
(13) Subjects using the timepiece cap showed an average compliance rate of 95.1%, an average decrease in systolic pressure of 7.6 mm Hg (P = .006), and an average decrease in diastolic pressure of 8.8 mm Hg (P less than .001).
(14) They are a little easier to wear than the computer-aided spectacles it is still tinkering with, and enthusiasts will no doubt put the hi-tech timepieces on their wish lists.
(15) Timepieces with touchscreens, made by Samsung (pictured) and LG using Google's software for wearable devices, went on sale on Wednesday from the company's online shop.
(16) This method requires only a radiation-rate meter, special graph paper, and a timepiece.
(17) Ahmed Mohamed, an engineering hobbyist, made the timepiece and brought it to school in the hope of impressing teachers and fellow students in his first few weeks at MacArthur High School.