Definition of Clock face

1. Noun. The face of a clock showing hours and minutes of the day.

Exact synonyms: Clock Dial
Group relationships: Clock
Generic synonyms: Face

Definition of Clock face

1. Noun. The surface of a clock that contains the dial and hands. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clock Face

clobetasol
clobetasol propionate
clobutinol
clochard
clochards
cloche
cloches
clocinizine
clock
clock-face timetable
clock-face timetables
clock-generator
clock-watcher
clock-watching
clock dial
clock face (current term)
clock faces
clock generator
clock generators
clock golf
clock in
clock off
clock on
clock out
clock paradox
clock pendulum
clock radio
clock speed
clock time
clock tower

Literary usage of Clock face

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Days at the Factories: Or, The Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain by George Dodd (1843)
"The making of the wheels and pinions connected with the clock-face is the work of the same class of persons as those employed in the ' movement ' wheels; ..."

2. Experimental Science: Elementary, Practical and Experimental Physics by George Milton Hopkins (1902)
"It now remains to turn up the clock face and mount it. ... The clock face is attached to this standard by means of bolts soldered to the back side of the ..."

3. Arithmetic by Jacob William Albert Young, Lambert Lincoln Jackson (1904)
"Material: Clock-face with movable hands 1. I on the clock- face stands for one. ... Beginning with I, point to the numbers on the clock-face in order and ..."

4. An Elementary Arithmetic by George Albert Wentworth (1897)
"What time of day is shown on the clock-face ? What time of day will be shown on the clock- face when the minute-hand peaches I ? II ? ..."

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