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O'CLOCK

Function: adverb

Meanings:

1 - O'clock is used when the time is a particular hour and zero minutes.

e.g. It's three o'clock in the afternoon. (it's three p.m.)
e.g. She was ten minutes late for her eight o'clock appointment.
e.g. I asked you to be here at nine o'clock, not at nine fifteen.

2 - O'clock is also used to give the location of something as if the speaker were facing a clock.

e.g. There's an airplane coming towards us at eleven o'clock.
e.g. Look over there at three o'clock. (look straight to your right) Do you see him?