单词 | perpetual calendar |
释义 | perpetual calendarn. 1. A form of calendar which can be used in any year; (also) a set of tables from which the day of the week can be reckoned for any date. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars Gregorian Calendarc1275 Julian Calendarc1275 fastia1387 almanacc1392 prognostication1486 shepherd's calendar1506 ephemeris1559 perpetual almanac?1566 perpetual calendar1577 ephemeris1647 primstaff1662 rim-stock1662 parapegma1671 Poor Robin1708 menologium1709 menologion1727 rune-staff1753 Liberian Calendar1754 parapegm1755 timetable1758 prognosticator1779 Hindu calendar1795 Moore's Almanac1806 Moorea1821 numeral1853 Advent calendar1867 paddywhack almanac1875 paddy1876 Islamic calendar1912 1577 (title) A perpetvall kalender. 1618 G. Chapman (title) The Georgicks of Hesiod... Translated elaborately out of the Greek: containing doctrine of husbandrie, moralitie, and pietie; with a perpetuall calendar of good and bad daies. 1782 F. S. La Mante (title) The register of time: or, a perpetual calendar. Part I. Containing the Julian calendar. 1851 E. S. Wortley Trav. in U.S. II. iv. 74 It is fastened on the wall, and is a very large circular stone of basaltic porphyry, covered with curious hieroglyphical figures, by which the Aztecs used to designate the different months of the year, and which it is thought formed a perpetual calendar. 1865 Sci. Amer. 18 Mar. 178/2 These engravings represent a neat and ornamental pen rack and inkstand combined with a perpetual calendar. 1920 J. M. Berdan Early Tudor Poetry v. 501 There is a perpetual calendar and complicated tables by which one can find and remember the saints' days and feast days of the Church. 1973 W. J. Burley Death in Salubrious Place v. 105 The perpetual calendar said Wednesday August 25th. Clarissa had changed it that morning. 2. A mechanical or electronic timekeeping device which automatically indicates the correct date. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock watch-clock1592 German clock1598 quarter clocka1631 wheel-clock1671 table clocka1684 month clock1712 astronomical clock1719 musical clock1721 repeater1725 Tompion1727 pulling clock1733 regulator1735 eight-day clock1741 regulator clock1750 French clock1757 repetition clock1765 day clock1766 striker1778 chiming clock1789 cuckoo-clock1789 night clock1823 telltale1827 carriage clock1828 fly-clock1830 steeple clock1830 telltale clock1832 skeleton clock1842 telegraph clock1842 star clock1850 weight-clock1850 prison clock1853 crystal clock1854 pillar scroll top clock1860 sheep's-head clock1872 presentation clock1875 pillar clock1880 stop-clock1881 Waterbury1882 calendar-clock1884 ting-tang clock1884 birdcage clock1886 sheep's head1887 perpetual calendar1892 bracket clock1894 Act of Parliament clock1899 cartel clock1899 banjo-clock1903 master clock1904 lantern clock1913 time clock1919 evolutionary clock1922 lancet clock1922 atomic clock1927 quartz clock1934 clock radio1946 real-time clock1953 organ clock1956 molecular clock1974 travelling clock2014 1892 Manufacturer & Builder Feb. 45/1 The instrument combines a printing clock, a perpetual calendar (that takes care of leap years automatically), and a watchman's time detector. 1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 130 Perpetual calendar, calendar worked by a clock which corrects for months of different lengths (and sometimes for leap years also). 1988 G. J. Whitrow Time in Hist.: Evol. Gen. Awareness vii. 105 The instrument..incorporated a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts, both fixed and movable, and also indicated the celestial motions of the sun, moon, and planets. 2001 Internat. Wristwatch No. 64. 20/3 Avoiding the cluttered appearance of many perpetual calendar watches, this model displays month and year through the transparent back. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1577 |
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