horology

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The word horology has two meanings; it is the study or science of measuring time or the art of making clocks, watches, and devices for telling time.

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  1. noun The science of measuring time.
  2. noun The art of making timepieces.

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  • It's a massive achievement in horology with an entirely new mechanical interpretation of a centuries-old tradition-depicting the universe as clockwork. —  Cool Hunting
  • Let's face it some people here plainly run on Moscow time, some Johannesburg, most sleepy students moonlight on a Dracula-like schedule, and to really rub it in quite a lot of public sector folk and builders seemingly even plump for a bizarre version of Saudi horology and are thus still in the year 1429 or thereabouts. —  SofiaEcho RSS feed
  • Geneva Watch Group is taking its high-end horology operation from the industrial environs of Long Island City to 1407 Broadway, a building in the midst of returning to its garment-industry roots. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • The Replica Carter Tank Francaise Watches is widely considered as a contemporary model of horology and design mastery. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The word horology has two meanings; it is the study or science of measuring time or the art of making clocks, watches, and devices for telling time. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
 

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  1. Greek hōrā, hour, season; see yēr- in Indo-European roots + -logy.

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  1. from Latin horologium, from Greek ὡρολόγιον, a horologe: see horologe. In def. 3 used as if from Greek *ὡρολογία, from ὡρολόγος, telling the hour: see horologe and -ology.
 

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/həˈrɑlədʒi/
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