twenty-four hour clock

  • 2124-hour — UK US adjective [before noun] (also twenty four hour) ► open or available all day and all night without closing or stopping: »Share trading is now a 24 hour industry. »a 24 hour emergency line/helpline/hotline »Responding to market pressure, they …

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  • 22round-the-clock — adjective at all times around the clock nursing care • Syn: ↑around the clock, ↑day and night, ↑nonstop • Similar to: ↑continuous, ↑uninterrupted * * * adjective …

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  • 23round the clock — adverb without stopping she worked around the clock • Syn: ↑around the clock, ↑for 24 hours * * * 1 we re working round the clock: DAY AND NIGHT, night and day, all the time, morning …

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  • 2424-hour trading — Round the clock dealings in securities, bonds, and currency. In practice, it is not normally carried out from any one office of a securities house; instead, the dealers in one time zone pass on their position to associates in another time zone.… …

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  • 25Sidereal hour — Hour Hour, n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. ?, orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See {Year}, and cf. {Horologe}, {Horoscope}.] 1. The …

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  • 26Solar hour — Hour Hour, n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. ?, orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See {Year}, and cf. {Horologe}, {Horoscope}.] 1. The …

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  • 27Four-minute warning — For the song by Mark Owen, see Four Minute Warning (song). The four minute warning was a public alert system conceived by the British Government during the Cold War and operated between 1953 and 1992 when the system was dismantled after the cold… …

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  • 28My Grandfather's Clock — 1876 sheet music for Grand Father s Clock My Grandfather s Clock is a song written in 1876 by Henry Clay Work, the author of Marching Through Georgia . It is a standard of British brass bands and colliery bands, and is also popular in bluegrass… …

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  • 29Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room — The Twilight Zone episode Jackie Rhoades in a strange mortal combat with himself …

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  • 30One O'Clock Lab Band — Poster: 2009 Performance in New York Background information Genres Jazz, Big band …

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