different between clocks vs chronoclasm
clocks
English
Noun
clocks
- plural of clock
Verb
clocks
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clock
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chronoclasm
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (khrónos, “time”), and ??????? (klást?s, “a person who breaks something”); from ???? (klá?, “break”)
Noun
chronoclasm (plural chronoclasms)
- The intentional destruction of clocks and other time artifacts
- (politics) The desire to crush the prevailing sense of time, due to a conflict regarding the fixation of linear time in a community
- A temporarily frazzled mental state resulting from confusion over what time it is.
- (science fiction) An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.
References
- Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism - E P Thompson - PDF-version
- Mastered By The Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
- "Chronoclasm" John Wyndham, 1953
chronoclasm From the web:
- what does chronoclasm mean
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