horological
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- adjective
- /ˌhɔːrəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
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horológico
- JLC features a fantastic horological background and numerous traditional models on which they are able to draw inspiration for new styles or tributes to previous models.
Examples
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Charlotte Smith, publishing verses on the Floral Clock eighteen years after "The Loves of the Plants," produces greater scientific distance from Linnaeus and mechanism, reevaluating debates about horological flowers' movements as demonstrating sentiency and agency, as well as Time's capacity to generate "domestic bliss."
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If you're looking to own a piece of horological history that's wearable for all occasions, here's a chance to do so.
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This Basel is a horological exhibit on the two concepts.
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Like, example, in horological circles, it's extremely frowned upon to have a replica.
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Exploring JLC, you find everything from rows of organized horological desks to oven rooms where they bake screws to blue them.
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A bishop's miter held a fusee adjusting rod, a staking tool, and other horological items of more obscure function.
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If Darwin imaginatively likens the floral clock to a mechanical watch, Charlotte Smith specifically avoids mechanical analogies for horological flowers.
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For him, these horological mechanisms of botany and astronomy participate in a cosmology of reason, not religion, and time becomes personified as the force through which new knowledge and biological organisms come into being.
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In his Philosophia Botanica (1751), Linnaeus, renowned for his system of botanical classification that ordered plants according to their sexual parts, proposed groundbreaking investigations into horological processes in the vegetable world.
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The museum's collection includes fascinating horological artifacts from different eras.
Synonyms
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Relating to measuring time, for example in clocks or timers
How Technical
- Specialized
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8.5
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Horological comes from the root hora, meaning 'hour', and this is the same root behind the English word hour. So horological is about measuring time and the study or making of clocks and watches.