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noun
(on a timepiece) a second hand that is a sweep hand.
Also called sweep-second hand.
Origin:
1935–40
1935–40
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Sweep-second
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
WordNet
| sweep-second | |
noun | |
| a second hand that is mounted on the same center as the hour and minute hand and is read on the minutes [syn: sweep hand] |
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