⏰ Alarm Clock

A timepiece set in advance to startle a person awake at the designated time with its two bells. That is, before hitting snooze. Appearance varies across platforms, but depicted as a classic, wind-up, bedside alarm clock, often red in color. May be used for various content concerning alarms, alerts, sleeping, waking, and time more generally.

Alarm Clock

Also known as: Clock, Alarm

Unicode: U+23F0

Image Variants

Alarm Clock 3D

3D

Alarm Clock Color

Color

Alarm Clock Flat

Flat

Alarm Clock High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0

Keywords

alarmclock

Shortcodes

PlatformShortcodeAction
Emojipedia:alarm_clock:

Additional Information

Category:Miscellaneous Technical -> User interface symbols
Definition:

A small clock with two bells to scare a person awake at a pre-set time. Alarm Clock was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to http://emojipedia.org/alarm-clock/

Adjectives:
  • Before a time limit expires
Verbs:
  • To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
  • Make a clicking or ticking sound
  • Make a clicking noise.
  • Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
  • Warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
  • To measure the duration of.
  • To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
  • Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
  • To measure time.
  • To measure the amount of time an object takes to complete a course (e.g., "to clock a race car").
Nouns:
  • Time is the fourth dimension and a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.
  • Inevitable passing of events.
  • Dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future
  • Time is a concept referring to the perceived flow of actions and events from the past to future, or to its measurement.
  • A period of time in which a given event is valid. The valid time interval includes the valid start time, and all moments of time up to, but not including the valid end time.
  • The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
  • The dimension of the physical universe which, at a given place, orders the sequence of events.
  • The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
  • Type of clock.
  • A clock with an alarm that can be set to sound at a determined time.
  • A button on an alarm clock which, when pressed, silences the alarm temporarily, granting a few more minutes of sleep before the alarm sounds again.
  • A clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time