Image:Wooden_hourglass.jpg|thumb|right|150 px|An hourglass.
English
wikipedia
Etymology
hour + glass
Noun
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- glass|Glass construction with two halves separated/connected with a narrow passage. There is sand in it which flows from one side to the other, obstructed by the narrow passage. The time to pass through is always the same, so it can serve to �measure� time or at least make sure that a duration is twice the same.
Derived terms
hourglass figure
Translations
Breton: eurier-traezh m
Dutch: zandloper m
Esperanto: sablohorlo�o
Finnish: tiimalasi
French: sablier m
German: Sanduhr f
Ido: sablo-horlojo
Italian: clessidra f
Lithuanian: sm�lio laikrodis m
mid
Polish: klepsydra f, zegar piaskowy m
Portuguese: ampulheta f
Russian: пе�о�н�е �а�� (pesó�nyje �asý) m|p
Slovene: peš�ena ura f
Spanish: reloj de arena m
Swedish: timglas n
Turkish: kum saati
See also
egg timer, egg-timer
sandglass
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