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Definition of "Horologium"

Horologium

  • proper noun

    1. (historical) Synonym of Tower of the Winds, a monument in ancient Athens that included a clepsydra and multiple prominent sundials.

    2. (historical) Synonym of Solarium, a monument in ancient Rome whose obelisk was once believed to have acted as a sundial gnomon.

    3. (astronomy) A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a pendulum clock. It lies between the constellations Fornax and Dorado.  

    4. (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of horologium, the book of hours in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.  

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