Synonyms of water clock

water clock

noun

as in alarm clock

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of water clock

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

It’s this weird hybrid between an old-school water clock and the mechanical clocks that would be developed in Europe a century or two later. —Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022

The sound of the water clock slowly filling up and then suddenly emptying brings a subtle sense of temporality that is at the same time an invitation to disconnect from time. —Felicity Carter, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021