I guess it’s like “horoscope”?

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    3 days ago

    Not quite. From the very page you linked to:

    “Horology is commonly used specifically with reference to the mechanical instruments created to keep time”

    Horology is generally used to refer to watchmaking/clockmaking, just as a horologist is a term to used to refer to watchmakers.

    The main term for the Wikipedia page you linked is Chronometry, and that would be the more correct term to use when describing the study of time. There’s even discussion on the talk page about how it was probably incorrect to have merged the Chronometry and Horology pages, but edits haven’t been made to fix it yet.