minute hand

Noun

Meaning

points to the minutes

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Synonyms

big hand hand direction guide arrow index needle fist blaze guidepost hour hand big needle exact hand tiny hand minute hands
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Antonyms

problem damage accept block disorder delay
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Hypernyms

hand

Examples

Great advances in accurate time-keeping were made by Galileo Galilei and especially Christiaan Huygens with the invention of pendulum driven clocks along with the invention of the minute hand by Jost Burgi. Source: Internet

The hour hand is driven not from the wheel train but from the minute hand's shaft through a small set of gears, so rotating the minute hand manually also sets the hour hand. Source: Internet

Pendulum clocks are usually designed to be set by opening the glass face cover and manually pushing the minute hand around the dial to the correct time. Source: Internet

The increased accuracy resulting from these developments caused the minute hand, previously rare, to be added to clock faces beginning around 1690. Source: Internet

This is analogous to the minute hand on a watch crossing the hour hand at 12:00 and then again at about 1:05½ (not at 1:00). Source: Internet

Since we need to draw the hour hand and the minute hand in the same way, we create a new private method This will help us only deal with the code once. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

minute duckweed minute glass minute gun minute hands minute man minute minder