Interpretation of Chinese and Japanese Methods of Time Keeping] Now, as to the methods of measuring time, we must use circumstantial evidence for the pre-historic period.
Such methods of measuring timewe know were used at least seven hundred and thirteen years before Christ, for in the book of Isaiah, thirty-eighth chapter and eighth verse, we find a very direct allusion to it.
If it were all daytime, or all night, and we had no clocks, we would have no means of measuring time.
The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc.
A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand.
Back of all that we see of life, therefore, stands the great fact of measuring time, and those who are engaged in giving to man the instruments for this purpose have a special responsibility.
We can travel like the wind from place to place, because in measuring time we can measure speed, and therefore we can make speed safe and possible.
You can see how important it was that navigators have some means of exactly measuring time.
Defn: The art, practice, or method of measuring timeby hours and subordinate divisions.
The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "measuring time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
