time ball meaning
noun
A ball mounted on a vertical pole, eg on top of a high building, that drops at a regular point in each day as an indication of mean time
A ball mounted on a vertical pole, eg on top of a high building, that drops at a regular point in each day as an indication of mean time
- time-ball: Noun: time-ballA b ...
- ball: Noun: ball &n ...
- be on the ball: Verb: be on the ba ...
Examples
More: Next- time balls were used in many ports during the nineteenth century
- its use diminished in 1907 when the time ball apparatus was removed to signal hill
- but the tradition of dropping a time ball reportedly began in the eighteen hundreds in england
- three years later, officials added a time ball to count down the seconds to the new year
- The first American time ball went into service in 1845.
