"O" 'clock is an abbreviation of "of the" clock.
But 0:00 is midnight. And 12:00 is noon–or midnight.
It's a shortened form of the now obsolete phrase of the clock, from the Middle English of the clokke. You might also use it when you're describing a direction by referring to an imaginary clock: "I saw the deer run by right there, at twelve o'clock."
A clock position is the relative direction of an object described using the analogy of a 12-hour clock. For example, 12 o'clock means ahead or above, 3 o'clock means to the right, 6 o'clock means behind or below, and 9 o'clock means to the left.
For example, 12 o'clock means directly ahead, 3 o'clock means directly to the right, 6 o'clock means directly behind, and 9 o'clock means directly to the left. The clock system is not confined to transportation.
Galileo had the idea to use a swinging bob to regulate the motion of a time-telling device earlier in the 17th century. Christiaan Huygens, however, is usually credited as the inventor.
We only use 'o'clock' for precise hours. You can say 'eight o'clock' at 08:00 but not at 08:01. We only use 'o'clock' when we are telling time using the 12-hour clock so English speakers would never say '13 o'clock'.
(informal) To the right (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 3 mark on a clock face) We've got a bogey at three o'clock.
If you are behind me, I am at your 12, you are at my 6. When you give somebody a location you say to them, “At YOUR (o'clock), as to them, they know that directly ahead of them is their 12.
adverb. /əˈklɒk/ /əˈklɑːk/ used with the numbers 1 to 12 when telling the time, to mean an exact hour.
noun. one hour after noon or midnight.
O is used to mean zero, for example when you are telling someone a phone number, or mentioning a year such as 1908. [spoken] 3. exclamation. O is used in exclamations, especially when you are expressing strong feelings.
Military time operates on a 24- hour clock that begins at midnight which is referred to as 0000 hours, with 1:00 a.m. being 0100 hours, 2:00 a.m. being 0200 hours, etc. all the way to 11:00 p.m. being 2300 hours.
0o, 0_o, and 0.o, a kaomoji emoticon that may refer to shocked, disturbed, or confused.
The term w00t (spelled with double-zero, "00"), or woot, is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually used in online conversation.
(informal) A position to the left and slightly ahead (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 10 mark on a clock face) We've got a bogey at ten o'clock.
six o'clock (not comparable) (US, especially black slang, of a woman) Straight up and down, without curves, like the hands of a clock. quotations ▼
Jadi, 12.45 = twelve forty five.
With minutes 1 – 29, we say it's past (or after) the hour. For example, “It's ten past three”, or 3:10. Or another example, “It's twenty after eight”, or 8:20. With minutes 31 – 59, we say to (the next hour).
Half past an hour means 30 minutes after an hour. So half past 7 can be written as 7:30.
11 o'clock number is a theatre term for a big, show-stopping song that occurs late in the second act of a two-act musical, in which a major character, often the protagonist, comes to an important realization.
'0 o'clock' is technically the same as midnight, but it is never used. It is an unhappy fusion of two different systems, the traditional twelve-hour clock and twentyfour-hour time. When spoken, 00:00 is pronounced 'zero hundred hours', itself a bit of a mishmash when it should be 'zero-zero hours'.