hour hand

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Do you know that you can use a watch as a compass on a sunny day ?Take a watch and point the hour-hand in the direction of the sun .
你知道天晴時可把手表當作指南針用嗎?拿一塊手表，將時針指向太陽；
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Do not run impetuously before the Lord; learn to wait His time: the minute-hand as well as the hour-hand must point the exact moment for action.
不要很性急地跑在神前面；學習等候他的時間：鐘表上的分針和時針走起來都有一定的規(guī)律。
Abstr: According to the operation and maintenance characteristics of data acquire terminal of special transformer , the new watt-hour meter hand-held unit is used in the fault judgment and treatment .
文章摘要：結合專變采集終端現(xiàn)場運維工作的特點，應用新開發(fā)研制的多功能電能表抄讀掌機進行故障判斷和處理。

When Thomas Tompion began making watches around 1670, the best ones money could buy had only an hour hand--and a tendency to gain or lose some 10 minutes per day.
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He has implored the country that invented the 35-hour week to work more and expect fewer hand-outs from the state.
ECONOMIST: Europe and America
One woman's body was found in a river an hour from her village, booby-trapped with hand-grenades.
ECONOMIST: Out by Panama’s front door, in through the back?

the part on a clock or watch that points to the hours. It is shorter than the minute hand.

the pointer on a timepiece that indicates the hour &rarrcompare minute hand , second hand