Что (кто) такое o'clock - определение

TIME COUNTING SYSTEM, DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS: AM AND PM

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o'clock

adv. at (ten) o'clock

o'clock

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

You use o'clock after numbers from one to twelve to say what time it is. For example, if you say that it is 9 o'clock, you mean that it is nine hours after midnight or nine hours after midday.

The trouble began just after ten o'clock last night...

I went to sleep, and at two o'clock in the morning I woke up.

ADV: num ADV

o'clock

¦ adverb used to specify the hour when telling the time.

Origin

contr. of of the clock.

Википедия

12-hour clock

The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods: a.m. (from Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday") and p.m. (from Latin post meridiem, translating to "after midday"). Each period consists of 12 hours numbered: 12 (acting as 0), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. The 12-hour clock was developed from the second millennium BC and reached its modern form in the 16th century AD.

The 12-hour time convention is common in several English-speaking nations and former British colonies, as well as a few other countries. There is no widely accepted convention for how midday and midnight should be represented: in English-speaking countries, "12 p.m." indicates 12 o'clock noon, while "12 a.m." means 12 o'clock midnight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour clock

Примеры произношения для o'clock

1. Five o'clock, four o'clock.

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3. lay them almost at 1 o'clock, 12 o'clock, 11 o'clock,

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4. 2 o'clock in the morning, 5 o'clock, 3 o'clock, whatever,

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5. at five o'clock or six o'clock?

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Примеры употребления для o'clock

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2. "They said they would tell us something at three o clock, but they never came out.

3. "Half–past eight, nine o‘ clock Moscow time (5:30 to 6 a.m.

4. He said the major contributors would find a special mention of their names in the nightly '’O clock TV bulletins.

5. By 7 am, the inmates are given breakfast and the lunch is served at around 12‘o clock.