Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet HOROLOGIUM

Definition av HOROLOGIUM

1. (astronomi) Pendeluret

Exempel på hur man kan använda HOROLOGIUM i en mening

• An astronomical clock, horologium, or orloj is a clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astronomical information, such as the relative positions of the Sun, Moon, zodiacal constellations, and sometimes major planets.
• Sometimes called a horologium nocturnum (time instrument for night) or nocturlabe (in French and occasionally used by English writers), it is related to the astrolabe and sundial.
• It was erected as the gnomon of the Solarium Augusti, his giant sundial (or horologium) in the Campus Martius.

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