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