英语词汇“clepsydra”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

clepsydra

释义

‖ clepsydra|ˈklɛpsɪdrə|
Pl. -as, and -æ.
[Lat., a. Gr. κλεψύδρα, f. Gr. κλεψ- combining form from κλέπτ-ειν to steal + ὕδωρ water. The name was also applied to intermittent fountains or ‘ebbing wells’. Blount has the Fr. form clepsydre.]
An instrument used by the ancients to measure time by the discharge of water; a water-clock.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xviii. 259 They measured the hours not only by..water in glasses called Clepsydræ, but also by sand in glasses called Clepsammia.1656Blount Glossogr., Clepsydre (clepsydra), a water-Dyal.1741–70E. Carter Lett. (1808) 43 You are not one of those orators whom I could wish confined to a Clepsydra.1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 149 Clepsydras..were used by astronomers.1878Lockyer Star-gazing 36.

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