| 单词 | hour hand |
| 例句 | It’s like the movement of an hour hand, too slow for the naked eye to see, but look away for a moment, and the hand has magically leaped from one number to the next. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The minute hand of the clock was a terribly slow lever, pushing the hour hand imperceptibly forward. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The hour hand on a clock moves about ten thousand times faster than the "flowing" rocks of the mantle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The glass face, the hour hand, and the minute hand'd gone and only a bent second hand was left. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Midway between the hour hand and noon on the dial is south.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Watch Makes a Comeback Rolex debuted the first G.M.T. watch, which featured an additional hour hand to represent Greenwich Mean Time, in the 1950s. | The G.M.T. Watch Makes a Comeback 2013-05-15T13:00:18Z Kieron's ageing process is so subtle that trying to notice it while it's happening is akin to trying to catch the motion of the hour hand of a clock. Taking another look at James Kelman 2010-09-21T08:34:00Z Let equal the distance from the tip of the hour hand to the ceiling hours after noon. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z Consider a clock with an hour hand and minute hand. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z They hardly spin at all as they speed through space—their rotational motion is more than 15 times slower than the crawl of a clock's hour hand, minimizing the risk of blurred images. Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z As the particle circles the magnet, its hour hand goes around and around at a rate predicted by theory. Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z The minute and hour hands are touted as reversible, “to suit your personal style.” Looking for unique holiday gifts? Try these 7 museum shops. 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z At noon, the tip of the hour hand is 30 inches from the ceiling. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z It was every single little thing wrong with modern sports rolled into a two-and-a-half hour hand grenade and the NBA Finals are probably ruined because of it. Game 5 of the NBA Finals was every little terrible thing wrong with modern sports - Golf Digest 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z But who wouldn’t be intrigued by trying to arrange gears so a toy car creeps like the hour hand on a clock? At tiny Pequea Valley, reinventing school is the goal 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z When the muon’s time is up, it decays into a positron that is emitted in the direction of the hour hand. Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z In addition, some religious groups—with holy observances based on solar and lunar time—don’t like government mandates meddling with the hour hand. Pros and Cons of Daylight Saving ("Savings") Time 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z At 9 PM, it is again 54 inches from the ceiling, and at midnight, the tip of the hour hand returns to its original position 30 inches from the ceiling. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z A contractor was to remove the clock’s hour hand while the situation is assessed ahead of repairs. 54-inch minute hand falls from university’s bell tower clock 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The hour hand is the arm of a robot and the minute hand is the arm of a Star Wars battle droid. Legos bring historic buildings to Flint Institute of Arts 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Calculating the virtual particles’ effect on the muon’s spin—the rate at which its hour hand turns—requires a series of equally arduous and incredibly precise theoretical determinations. Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Another of Hermes' new novelties toys with convention by stripping back instead of adding on and dispensing with the hour hand. New Hermes watch offerings add an alloy, hide the hour hand 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z For instance, we know the hour hand of a clock moves, but it moves too slowly for us to perceive that motion with our eyes. Could There Ever Be Movies Without "Cuts”? 2014-04-29T19:24:16Z There have been reports of a bug that causes the watch’s clock app not display the hour hand, but company representatives said: “Nobody’s battery has lasted long enough for that to come up.” Live Blogging CES East: The Best (Fake) Gadget Show Ever 2014-01-06T20:33:03Z He reminds me of an hour hand: you know it must be moving but you can't quite make it out. Premier League fans verdict part two: QPR to Wigan Athletic 2013-05-18T22:27:53Z Here’s Rich in Atlanta: The minute hand will complete a circle 12 times, while the hour hand completes one circle. Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: Frog in Well 2012-05-28T16:00:00Z The universe is still a gigantic clockwork, even though we can’t be sure where the minute and hour hands will point a week hence. How Physics and Neuroscience Dictate Your "Free" Will 2012-05-16T18:20:46.707Z Has it any hands besides the hour hand and the minute hand? The Psychology of Arithmetic 2012-03-31T02:00:28.817Z Then she measured half the distance between twelve and the hour hand and knew that this central point indicated due south. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z The soft light of the lamp illumines a petit salon; the hour hand of the clock points to the figure five, and the libretto tells us it is the 24th of December. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z She pointed to the bus stop along the western edge of the park, beside an elevated clock whose hour hand never budges. Occupy Newark Is Met With Mostly Warm Response 2011-11-28T01:30:05Z The hour hand of the clock was on three. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z To him "Know-nothingism" transcended all questions of policy, denied the very mission of Democracy, turned back the hour hand of political progress and was traitor and recreant to its teachings. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z Though the figuring of the dial was too distant to be made out, the black lines of the minutes and hour hands could be seen approaching one another. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Evelyn could see the minute and hour hand of the pretty clock on her mantelpiece. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z A bent wire on the axis is embraced by a prong on the hour hand of the time-piece; therefore the cylinder is carried round once in twelve hours. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z All you have to do is to point the hour hand directly at the sun. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z I'll never be found a second time stringing my beads with a toothpick and relying for time upon a clock with the hour hand missing. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z In this case, it is pretty to have the icing on cake represent the face of a clock, with the hour hand pointing to the hour which indicates the child's age. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z Count forward from the hour hand to twelve in the forenoon, but in the afternoon the south is half way between the hour hand and twelve, counting back towards twelve. Woodcraft 2010-12-30T03:00:30.337Z He is back on the air at 10, and then he drives home, maybe listening to Sinatra, hitting Armonk around the time the minute and hour hands both hit 12. 2010-01-30T15:28:00Z This minute hand has to push that hour hand so many times round before the moment comes for your ghost to mount and ride. The Firebrand The hour hand with a short jerk moved forward and the deep note of the bell boomed out—it was one o'clock of the night; and all was not well. The Broken Gate A Novel Sooner or later it will have dissolved into the 'formless mist' of protyle and 'the hour hand of eternity will have completed one revolution.' Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" The time shown is 8 p. m. and with the hour hand pointed towards the sun, south would be midway between 8 and 12 or in line with the figure 10. Woodcraft 2010-12-30T03:00:30.337Z Another magical clock consists of two disks of thin sheet glass mounted one close behind the other, one carrying the minute hand and the other the hour hand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" As Teeny-bits gazed upward, trying to read the position of the hour hand in the half-light of the street lamps, the big timepiece boomed out two strokes. The Mark of the Knife Special dial gearing would be required for the hour hand to accompany this dial. The Auburndale Watch Company First American Attempt Toward the Dollar Watch The position of the hour hand brought a petulant frown to his white forehead. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation And he placidly fired a fourth shot that scraped the boy’s boot at the ankle and threw earth over the clock, so that you could not tell the minute from the hour hand. Red Men and White By a skillful arrangement of cogs it also moves the hour hand around the dial once in twelve hours. Makers of Many Things Before noon the halfway point is between the hour hand and XII clockwise, and after noon it is between the hour hand and XII counter-clockwise. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts The hour hand, for example, is exactly twenty minutes removed from the minute hand—that is, the third of the circumference of the dial. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems The two pointers act together just like the minute and hour hands on a clock. Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls In the dim light she watched the hour hand of the clock as it slowly moved around the dial. The Secret Witness The dials of the earlier specimens are of brass and have only the hour hand, an onward step being marked when the minute finger was added. Chats on Household Curios Holding the watch flat, turn it so that the small or hour hand points directly toward the sun. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts There is a little index like the hour hand of a watch, which is movable. Rollo in Naples It is like the motion of the hour hand of a watch, which cannot be perceived however closely it may be looked at. Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions It really moves, this vast body of snow; but, like the hour hand of a watch, its motion cannot be recognised, though we should observe it with prolonged, unflagging attention. The Ocean and its Wonders When I reached my room that ev—morning, I was shocked and startled to find the hour hand of my watch pointing steadily to two a. m. My New Curate The South will then be half way between the hour hand and the figure XII on the dial. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Imagine a number of striking clocks placed in a row, each with only an hour hand, and with only the striking apparatus retained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" These are the rules: With your watch in a horizontal position point the hour-hand to the sun, and if before noon, half-way between the hour hand and 12 is due south. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls The hour hand of a wooden clock on the mantel piece pointed to eleven. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales While on the Roland, time had crawled at a snail's pace, the hour hand of the clock on the Hamburt travelled twice around its face with surprising rapidity. Atlantis He replied that he could not, but he recollected that the hour hand and minute hand were exactly together, one above the other, and the second hand had just passed the forty-ninth second. Amusements in Mathematics The hour hands of a thousand watches now verged within a hair's breadth of the figure 1. The Piazza Tales The hour hand of the clock has moved all around its great face. McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader It makes no fuss at all, but you can tell time by the hour hand. The Children's Six Minutes Up in the dormitory windows lights were twinkling and the hour hand on the chapel clock was nearing seven. The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet The hour hand has an inner circle of its own. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do He is fading almost from hour to hour, as slowly as the hour hand of a clock. The Night Horseman For hours I lay watching Alpha Centauri - the double star of the Great Bear's pointers - dipping under the Polar star like the hour hand of a clock. Tracks of a Rolling Stone The hour hand does not move very fast, you cannot see it move. The Children's Six Minutes The difference between such a man and a bolder liar, is merely that between the hour hand, and that which tells the seconds, on a watch. Literary Remains, Volume 1 Or else you turn the XII to the sun and take half-way between that and the hour hand. If I May The hour hand moved quickly from space to space. The House on the Borderland Now I'm watching the hour hand to-day, 'cause I don't want Time to go fast. Pollyanna Grows Up Let your life be like the hour hand of the watch, so true and steady that other girls and boys who daily watch you may know life's time, may never be led astray. The Children's Six Minutes Would the minute hand never climb up the face to the hour hand and the two get together at twelve, and so end his impatience. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero You turn the hour hand of your watch to the sun, and half-way between that and the XII is the south. If I May The hour hand of the clock hung about eight; the air was stingingly cool, but not at the freezing point. Roads of Destiny We call the short hand the hour hand, for it tells the hours. The New McGuffey First Reader When the hour hand reached the surgeon's plaster, he must wake us up. The Land of Footprints The fact of not knowing where she lived made the whole of Paris a meaningless unintelligible place, as useless to him as the face of a huge clock that has lost its hour hand. The Glimpses of the Moon The hour hand stood a little past ten, and Bud decided he had better go. Cabin Fever |
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