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What is a clepsydra?

What is a clepsydra? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A water clock, especially as used in the ancient world.
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He did this with a clepsydra, a vessel with a hole in the bottom and one in the top.
The Djyotisha also teaches the art of constructing a clepsydra, or water-clock.
In the northeast corner of the hall, a stone staircase leads to a room that held a clepsydra, a pot with a hole through which water drained at a constant rate that was used to measure the passage of time.
Mr. Vouillamoz, an engineer in nuclear physics and a microfluids specialist, wanted to create a new application of that ancient concept by replicating a clepsydra in a wristwatch.
By means of an astrolabe or clepsydra, we determine the time of the start and end of the eclipse.
He designed a lotus clepsydra, that is a water clock which had a bowl shaped like a lotus flower on the top into which water dripped.

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