Sentence examples for Water clock from inspiring English sources
noun
A device for measuring time by letting water flow out of a container, usually through a tiny aperture.
A Chinese Water Clock [ILin 73]. Figure 3 shows a water clock.
An alternative metaphor to the water clock is the candle clock.
A multi-staged water clock is a good representation of the data flow in the networks.
In art Clio was frequently represented with the heroic trumpet and the clepsydra (water clock).
But on its own small scale, the water clock is a marvel.
He was first to measure the pulse, for which he used a water clock.
A set of glass containers reminded me of the medieval water-clock I once saw in a cathedral.
The internal workings of a water-clock which features eyes changing colour and balls dropping onto a cymbal from a bird's head.
The two bronzes, which date from 1750, were part of a 12-animal water-clock fountain configured around the Chinese zodiac in the imperial gardens of the Summer Palace outside Beijing.
In two of his later works al-Ghazâlî compares the universe with a water-clock.
The emperor who commissioned the bronzes, for a water-clock fountain configured around the Chinese zodiac, was a fan of Western art.
