Sentence examples for clepsydra from inspiring English sources
noun
A water clock, especially as used in the ancient world.
In art Clio was frequently represented with the heroic trumpet and the clepsydra (water clock).
"It is the age-old principle of the clepsydra".
The clepsydra, or water clock in Greek, is a device used to measure time by the gravitational flow of water into or out of a vessel, a technique used in some of the oldest known timepieces, traced to ancient Babylon, Egypt and China.
Mr. Vouillamoz, an engineer in nuclear physics and a microfluids specialist, wanted to create a new application of that ancient concept by replicating a clepsydra in a wristwatch.
In the Pompidou Center's exhibition, there is inevitably some overlap with Greenwich, with a third-century B.C. Chinese clepsydra, or water clock, opening the show and other cultures variously represented by a Mayan stela, an Aztec codex and an ancient Egyptian papyrus text.
The Serbian writer Milorad Pavic may win the prize: he has attempted novels disguised as a crossword puzzle, a tarot book and even a clepsydra, an ancient water clock (at least conceptually; the pages are dry).
Clepsydra, Gaullist, ducal, oxylophyte, bidet.
