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a building that yells the time at an entire town whether it asked or not
means A tall tower, usually part of a public building, with a large clock mounted high on one or more sides so it can be seen from a distance.
from A transparent compound of "clock" and "tower." "Tower" comes through Old English and Old French from Latin "turris," a tall structure. "Clock" has a lovelier root: Medieval Latin "clocca," meaning "bell" (a cousin of the word that gives French "cloche" and German "Glocke"), because the earliest public clocks didn't show a face at all — they simply rang a bell to mark the hours. So a clocktower is, at heart, a bell-tower that learned to point.
- big ben
- that name is the bell, not the tower
- gravity timing
- pendulum towers keep time by literally falling forever
- sun rival
- public clocks ended life ruled by daylight
- leaning issue
- Pisa's tower hosted gravity experiments, allegedly
- strike count
- hourly bongs once warned illiterate workers awake
big ben — iconic clock tower in westminster, london, completed 1859
independence hall clock — historic tower clock in philadelphia, built 1753