Synonyms of water clock

water clock

noun

as in alarm clock

Related Words

• alarm clock
• time clock
• grandfather clock
• atomic clock
• cuckoo clock
• hourglass
• sundial
• clepsydra
• sandglass
• clock
• stopwatch
• chronograph
• timer
• watch
• timekeeper
• timepiece
• chronometer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of water clock

For example, Timothée could — nay, should: ➽ Get a pork tenderloin sandwich the size of your head ➽ Visit the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library ➽ Peep the big water clock at the Children’s Museum ➽ Drive all the way down to Bloomington, IN and check out Tibetan Cultural Center. —Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 May 2025

His intricate water clocks and automata were not only practical but also visually appealing. —Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025

Before time zones, people used other methods of telling time like sun dials and water clocks. —Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024

The story of precision timing begins with primitive yet ingenious methods like sundials and water clocks, markers of humanity's first steps in timekeeping. —Markus Lutz, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024

The oldest surviving water clocks were found in Egypt and Babylon, and the earliest of these date to around 1500 B.C.E. —Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023

The earliest Chinese water clocks were probably outflow devices and were known as louke. —Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023

Odell’s ideas gallop between twentieth-century time studies and ancient Chinese water clocks, Amazonian factory floors and Zoom rooms set adrift, mastery journals, Mojave poetry, second shifts, segregated leisure, Ice Age sea floors and present-day climate crisis. —Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023

It’s a water clock, based on a constant flow of water, but it’s a mechanical device. —Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022