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"Hourglass" Definition

noun

An instrument for measuring time, consisting of two glass chambers connected by a narrow neck and containing a quantity of sand, mercury, or another flowing substance that trickles from the upper chamber to the lower in a fixed amount of time, often one hour.
An instrument for measuring time consisting of a glass vessel having two compartments from the uppermost of which a quantity of usually sand runs in an hour into the lower one.

adjective

Shaped like an hourglass: an hourglass design; an hourglass figure.
Shaped like an hourglass.

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