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UK
/tˈaɪmpiːs/
]
[ US /ˈtaɪmˌpis/ ]
[ US /ˈtaɪmˌpis/ ]
NOUN
- a measuring instrument or device for keeping time
How To Use timepiece In A Sentence
- KEEPS the England midfield ticking over like an expensive timepiece. The Sun
- This discovery led to the invention of the pendulum and various timepieces such as the Grandfather clock, but at the time Galileo could not explain it.
- Some time in the fifteenth century, clockmakers started to use tightly coiled blades of metal - springs - to power their timepieces, instead of gravity.
- The audio, which hijacks your cardiac tempo as only ominous electronica amped up in the dark can do, mixes recordings of two timepieces of erstwhile global authority.
- Until the 1920s, the most accurate timepieces depended on the regular swing of a pendulum.
- I would have thread fewfew piggeries are greener this timepiece of daylight fweff — — — — - she prays The Imbecilic Utterances (or Why is every man's burden the heaviest?)
- The Atlanta Games will boast an "official" scouring pad and timepiece, two official game shows, and three official vehicles: a family car, an import minivan and a luxury sedan.
- Over thousands of years, the accuracy of maps didn't improve significantly faster than the accuracy of primitive timepieces such as the sundial or water clock.
- The second hand rotates and the clock ticks in this high-energy version of a traditional timepiece.
- A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46 a.m. on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Ulysses