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According to this press release, the terms aren't synonymous. This Telegraph article and a few others like it suggest that ""Chronophage"" is used by Dr Taylor only to refer to the escapement mechanism (the grasshopper), which is one part of the Corpus Clock as a whole. However, MatthewVernon has a point - the whole thing is frequently called the Chronophage. I've been guilty of that myself.   "