Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The work of astronomical observatories in furnishing correct time to the community by telegraph.
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Examples
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Jefferson electric clock and time-service, consisting of a marble dial in the Library, two steel dials, one in each pediment of the Rotunda, and a system of electric bells in the various lecture rooms.
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How poor and vain in comparison with this stern and sincere eloquence seem the supple time-service and euphemism of vulgar politicians of whose cunning and fruitless spiderwebs the latter years have been so prolific.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890
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