sweep hand

1. 1.

   a second hand that is mounted on the same center as the hour and minute hand and is read on the minutes

   Synonymssweep-second

   Broadersecond hand

Questions about sweep hand

What does sweep hand mean?

sweep hand means "a second hand that is mounted on the same center as the hour and minute hand and is read on the minutes".

What is another word for sweep hand?

Close synonyms include sweep-second. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sweep hand a common word?

sweep hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.