Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who practices or is skilled in horology.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One versed in horology; a maker of timepieces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in horology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person; someone who makes or repairs watches or
clocks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes or repairs watches
Etymologies
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Examples
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The author of the site, Ray Bates, is an antiquarian horologist in Vermont, and has this description of the bird:
The Manifesto Heather McDougal 2007
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The author of the site, Ray Bates, is an antiquarian horologist in Vermont, and has this description of the bird:
Archive 2007-03-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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The world is a real clock work world, and to save the world, Hethor, an apprentice horologist, must wind the mainspring.
Monty Python's Spamalot (U.S. Tour) joshenglish 2007
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Going against everything known (and the nine tenths of everything that remains unknown), a young horologist has been commissioned to build the world's first truly accurate clock.
Thief of Time: Summary and book reviews of Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett. 2001
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So little a while ago that face had moved with every change of sentiment, that pale mouth had spoken, that body had been all on fire with governable energies; and now, and by his act, that piece of life had been arrested, as the horologist, with interjected finger, arrests the beating of the clock.
The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson
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In other words, so far the balance of our reasoning is in favor of the club tooth escapement and to effect an intelligent division of angles for tooth, pallet and lift is one of the great questions which confronts the intelligent horologist.
An Analysis of the Lever Escapement H. R. Playtner
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Many years ago the British Government made an offer of £6,000 for a chronometer for her navy, keeping better time than the ones in use, but no European horologist ever discovered the sequel which Mr. Heinrich has now worked out to perfection, overcoming the extremes, as stated above.
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So little a while ago that face had moved with every change of sentiment, that pale mouth had spoken, that body had been all on fire with governable energies; and now, and by his act, that piece of life had been arrested, as the horologist, with interjected finger, arrests the beating of the clock.
Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels
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Thomas Mudge was the first horologist who successfully applied it to watches in the detached form, about 1750.
An Analysis of the Lever Escapement H. R. Playtner
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Life had been arrested, as the horologist, with interjected finger, arrests the beating of the clock
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