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Sandglass

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An instrument for measuring the passage of time by the passage of sand through a narrow opening.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See hourglass.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A glass vessel consisting of two equal, nearly conical, and coaxial receptacles connected by a small opening at their vertices, one of which contains sand, which, if the glass is turned, runs through the opening into the other, the amount of sand being so regulated that a certain space of time is exactly measured by its running through. Compare hour-glass, minute-glass.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage

Word Usage

"The set designer explains that the sandglass chamber was not meant to be disassembled, but stuff like this happens all the time on a movie production - making the impossible possible."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

timekeeper timepiece horologe

Variant

hourglass

Hyponym

egg timer hourglass

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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