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Meaning of "sweep hand" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SWEEP HAND

sweep hand play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWEEP HAND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sweep hand is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SWEEP HAND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sweep hand in the English dictionary

The definition of sweep hand in the dictionary is a long hand that registers seconds or fractions of seconds on the perimeter of the dial.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SWEEP HAND

sweeney
sweeny
sweep
sweep something under the carpet
sweep the board
sweep-saw
sweepback
sweeper
sweeping
sweepingly
sweepingness
sweepings
sweepstake
sweepstakes
sweepy
sweer
sweet
sweet alison
sweet alyssum
sweet basil

WORDS THAT END LIKE SWEEP HAND

a free hand
a heavy hand
at first hand
at hand
at second hand
by hand
come to hand
first hand
from hand to hand
hand
hand in hand
hat in hand
helping hand
in hand
on hand
out of hand
second hand
take in hand
the upper hand
to hand
upper hand

Synonyms and antonyms of sweep hand in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sweep hand» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SWEEP HAND

Find out the translation of sweep hand to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sweep hand from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sweep hand» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

手扫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

barrido de la mano
570 millions of speakers

English

sweep hand
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

झाड़ू हाथ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ومن ناحية الاجتياح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

развертки рука
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

varredura mão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হাত ছাঁটাই
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

balayage main
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menyapu tangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sekundenzeiger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

秒針
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스윕 손
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyapu tangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quét tay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்வீப் கையை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हात झटकन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

El süpürme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spazzata mano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zamiatać rękę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розгортки рука
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

matura mână
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκούπισμα χεριών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sweep hand
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

svep handen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

feie hånd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sweep hand

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SWEEP HAND»

The term «sweep hand» is used very little and occupies the 153.455 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SWEEP HAND» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sweep hand

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWEEP HAND»

Discover the use of sweep hand in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sweep hand and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Motor Learning and Performance: A Situation-based Learning ...
1.0 0.9 o> -° c *= 0.7 O) £ 0.6 1 0.5 ~ 0.4 0.3 0.1 Arthur Slater-Hammel (1960) conducted an experiment in which participants were asked to hold down a reaction key with a finger while watching the sweep hand of a timer that made one ...
Richard A. Schmidt, Craig A. Wrisberg, 2008
2
Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology
It would be most natural to say that the system in which the sweep hand is functioning — by analogy with the organismic cases — is the watch itself; but it is hard to make sense of the easier reading's being useful to the mechanism. On the ...
Elliott Sober, 1994
3
Purposive Behaviour and Teleological Explanations
It would be most natural to say that the system in which the sweep hand is functioning — by analogy with the organismic cases — is the watch itself; but it is hard to make sense of the easier reading being useful to the mechanism. On the other ...
Frank Honywill George, Les Johnson, 1985
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Function, Selection, and Design
It would be most natural to say that the system in which the sweep hand is functioning — by analogy with the organismic cases — is the watch itself; but it is hard to make sense of the easier reading being useful to the mechanism. On the other ...
David J. Buller, 1999
5
The Chimney Sweep Charm
“Maybe I can get the waitress to shake my chimney sweep hand and she'll give us each two peppermint straws this time, huh?” Baylee giggled as Justice stood up from his chair and strode across the room to talk to the waitress. “That's one ...
Marcia Lynn McClure, 2011
6
Motor Learning and Performance, 5E With Web Study Guide: ...
continued trials required an inhibition of the normal task of lifting the finger to stop the sweep hand. The rationale was simple—if the motor program had not yet been sent to the muscles when the sweep hand stopped, then the subject should  ...
Richard Schmidt, Tim Lee, 2013
7
A Complete Manual of Amateur Astronomy: Tools and Techniques ...
Stopwatches can be obtained with the following variations: * one minute-The sweep hand requires 1 min or 60 sec to make one revolution. * ten second— The sweep hand makes one complete revolution in 10 sec and provides better ...
P. Clay Sherrod, Thomas L. Koed, 2012
8
Vision and Motor Control
watched a sweep hand of a clock and attempted to release a signal key, that was being held down with the fingers of the right hand, at the same time as the clock hand reached a target pointer. The transit reaction time, or what SlaterHammel ...
L. Proteau, D. Elliott, 1992
9
Advances in Human Aspects of Road and Rail Transportation
In the clock task, the instructor asks the workers to monitor a sweep hand and to push a key if they detect an irregular two-steps jump of the hand, which appears once on Lap 2 and 4. The sweep hand needs two seconds for moving one step.
Neville A. Stanton, 2012
10
Motor Control and Learning-5th Edition
The sweep hand of the chronoscope normally made a full revolution in 1 s (1,000 ms). The subject's primary task was to stop the sweep hand of the chronoscope on its second revolution precisely on the 800 ms mark by lifting a finger off a ...
Richard A. Schmidt, Tim Lee, 1988

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Sweep hand [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sweep-hand>. Apr 2024 ».
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