sweep hand
a hand, usually a second hand, centrally mounted with the minute and hour hands of a timepiece and reaching to the edge of the dial.
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How to use sweep hand in a sentence
The sweep hand on the chronometer made its rounds several times before he answered.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettThere was a clock dial with a red sweep-hand which moved steadily and ominously toward a deadline time for firing.
Space Tug | Murray LeinsterThis clock is a regulator with a seconds' pendulum and sweep hand on an enameled dial.
Satisfied, he fastened his eyes on the sweep hand of the time clock.
Stand by for Mars! | Carey Rockwell
British Dictionary definitions for sweep hand
horology a long hand that registers seconds or fractions of seconds on the perimeter of the dial
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