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Definition of Time-ball
1. Noun. A ball that slides down a staff to show a fixed time; especially at an observatory.
Definition of Time-ball
1. Noun. (rare spelling of time ball) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Time-ball
Literary usage of Time-ball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Folk-Song Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"time-ball, similar to that at the Royal Observatory, ... Thus the time-ball is
made to descend without injuring the building or spoiling itself; ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"This time-ball it was proposed to drop daily by telegraph at New York noon.
It is to be dropped exactly at llb 47m 49.53' AM of Washington local time, ..."
3. Electricity and the Electric Telegraph by George Bartlett Prescott (1888)
"But the time service does not end here, To reap the full benefit of the time
ball, a great number of people must watch for its fall; that takes time, ..."
4. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1877)
"A time-ball is established at Cadiz, but we have no information of the time at
... There is a time-ball dropped at Batavia mean noon, and also one at lh 7m ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1856)
"... the question of extending the signal to the other parts of Scotland had been
raised. described the recently erected time-ball on the Nelson Monument, ..."
6. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1853)
"A time-ball, similar to that at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, ... Thus the
time-ball is made to descend without injuring the building or spoiling itself ..."
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