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Saving St Prawns oratory from the sands of time, Saving St Prins oratory from the sands of time, Saving St Piranesi oratory from the sands of time, or Saving St Puranas oratory from the sands of time ?
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oratory
Congregation of the Oratory [Lat. abbr., Cong. Orat. ], in the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1575, an association of secular priests organized into independent communities according to the rule written by St. Philip Neri . The purpose of the oratory is to raise local religious standards. To... Read more |
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solar time
solar time time defined by the position of the sun. The solar day is the time it takes for the sun to return to the same meridian in the sky. Local solar time is measured by a sundial . When the center of the sun is on an observer's meridian, the observer's local solar time is zero hours... Read more |
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Cooling-Off Period
COOLING-OFF PERIOD An interval of time during which no action of a specific type can be taken by either side in a dispute. An automatic delay in certain jurisdictions, apart from ordinary court delays, between the time when divorce papers are filed and the divorce hearing takes place. An amount of... Read more |
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civil time
civil time local time based on universal time . Civil time may be formally defined as mean solar time plus 12 hr; the civil day begins at midnight, while the mean solar day begins at noon. Civil time is occasionally adjusted by one-second increments to ensure that the difference between a... Read more |
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daylight saving time
daylight saving time (DST), time observed when clocks and other timepieces are set ahead so that the sun will rise and set later in the day as measured by civil time . The amount of daylight on a given day of the year at a given latitude is fixed, but over the year the hours of sunrise and... Read more |
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standard time
standard time civil time used within a given time zone. The earth is divided into 24 time zones, each of which is about 15° of longitude wide and corresponds to one hour of time. Within a zone all civil clocks are set to the same local solar time . Adjacent zones typically differ by a whole... Read more |
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hourglass
hourglass glass instrument for measuring time, usually consisting of two bulbs united by a narrow neck. One bulb is filled with fine sand that runs through the neck into the other bulb in an hour's time. The date of its invention is unknown, but it was in use in ancient times. Similar devices for... Read more |
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Ordovician period
Ordovician period [from the Ordovices, ancient tribe of N Wales], second period of the Paleozoic era of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale , table) from 505 to 438 million years ago. It was similar to the preceding Cambrian period , with shallow seas spread for most of the time over the... Read more |
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