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horol.

American  

abbreviation

  1. horology.

horol. British  

abbreviation

  1. horology

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Horol′oger, Horologiog′rapher, Horol′ogist, a maker of clocks, &c.—adjs.

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Horologiog′raphy, the art of constructing timepieces; Horol′ogy, the science which treats of the construction of machines for telling the hours: the office-book of the Greek Church for the canonical hours.

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