Clock
Meanings and phrases
n.
- a timepiece that shows the time of day
v.
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; time
adv.
- as fast as possible; before a deadline; against time
- Cars compete against the clock, and start at the same time.
- The player has to race against the clock to post the most goals in the fastest time.
- The simulation allows the player to drive a Ferrari against the clock at a race track.
n.
- a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time; alarm
- Other features found may be a telephone, an alarm clock, and a TV.
- At 08:00 that night, Porky sets the alarm clock as Gabby complains about having to go to bed early.
- The next morning, Porky and Gabby are shown sleeping in the drawers when the alarm clock goes off at 06:00.
n.
- an atomic clock based on vibrational frequency of the nitrogen atom in the ammonia molecule
n.
- a clock that displays the time of day by the position of hands on a dial
adv.
- without stopping; for 24 hours; round the clock
- Men worked around the clock for the anticipated battle.
- Czolgosz was arrested, and interrogated around the clock.
- In January 1980, KDWN began broadcasting talk around the clock.
n.
- a timepiece that derives its time scale from the vibration of atoms or molecules
n.
- an innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions
n.
- an atomic clock based on the energy difference between two states of the caesium nucleus in a magnetic field
n.
- the face of a clock showing hours and minutes of the day; clock face
n.
- the face of a clock showing hours and minutes of the day; clock dial
- On the west side of the tower is a blue clock face.
- On the south side is a small window and a clock face.
- There is another painted panel, formerly a clock face, dated 1719.
n.
- a form of golf in which you putt from positions arranged on the circumference of a circle around the hole
v.
- register one's arrival at work; punch in; clock on
v.
- register one's departure from work; clock out; punch out
v.
- register one's arrival at work; clock in; punch in
v.
- register one's departure from work; punch out; clock off
n.
- a physical pendulum used to regulate a clockwork mechanism
n.
- a radio that includes a clock that can be set to turn it on automatically
n.
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock; time
n.
- a tower with a large clock visible high up on an outside face
- It is unknown when Bitola's clock tower was built.
- The romanesque clock tower is from the 12th Century.
- The clock tower was unveiled on 31 October 1888.
v.
- record a distance travelled; on planes and cars; log up
n.
- a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time
n.
- clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo
n.
- a clock that displays the time of day digitally
n.
- a clock using a small electric motor
n.
- a pendulum clock enclosed in a tall narrow case; longcase clock
n.
- a pendulum clock enclosed in a tall narrow case; grandfather clock
n.
- a clock regulated by a pendulum
adv.
- without stopping; around the clock; for 24 hours
- It is guarded by military round the clock.
- Between them, the Allies could mount "round the clock" bombing.
- The institute has high bandwidth (8 Mbit/s) Internet connectivity round the clock.
n.
- weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States; meadow salsify; goatsbeard; Tragopogon pratensis
n.
- the clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft; SCLK
n.
- a time-of-day clock in a computer system
- an electronic device in a computer that issues a steady high-frequency signal that synchronizes all the internal components
n.
- clock used to record the hours that people work
n.
- a clock with more than one dial to show the time in all directions from a tower
n.
- a clock mounted on a wall
n.
- clock that measures time by the escape of water; clepsydra; water glass
E.g.
- A quick clean-up brings the evening to a close about eleven o’clock.
- At 3 o’clock in the morning, Suna and Ipek went there to pick them up.
- He gave the inmates till five o’clock to get out their personal effects.
E.g.
- A quick clean-up brings the evening to a close about eleven o’clock.
- At 3 o’clock in the morning, Suna and Ipek went there to pick them up.
- He gave the inmates till five o’clock to get out their personal effects.
E.g.
- It has and operates at up to for clock speed.
- The LDOS 5.3 update supports SYSTEM (FAST) to enable the Model 4's 4 MHz clock speed.
- It had a basic clock speed of 150 kHz and consumed about 4000 watts of electric power.
E.g.
- A ten-second runoff was administered, and the game clock expired.
- Baseball has no game clock, although most games end in the ninth inning.
- The "game timekeeper" is responsible for stopping and starting the game clock.
E.g.
- For the Masters series events the ATP introduced a shot clock.
- A shot clock of 45 seconds is used with one extension for each player per rack.
- The 13 points included a shot clock buzzer beater in the closing seconds of the third quarter.
E.g.
- The circadian clock modulates many physiological rhythms.
- The failure of entrainment is explained by the loss of photic input to the circadian clock.
- Constant routine protocols have been criticized due to evidence that the conditions necessary for the protocol themselves influence the circadian clock.
E.g.
- The usual method reduces the CPU's clock rate.
- The constant is chosen to make the clock rate at infinity equal to 1.
- It runs with a 6.144 MHz clock rate and adds 256KB of memory that could be used as a RAM disk.
E.g.
- The original city hall clock had four clock faces, each in diameter and made of crushed glass.
- Around the base of the dome are four clock faces, each of which is supported by a lion and unicorn.
- The bell stage has Doric flat pilasters and an entablature, 2-light louvred bell openings, and clock faces.
E.g.
- Tech was forced to punt, but only after they bled 5 minutes off the clock.
- Oklahoma scooped up the ensuing onside kick and ran the final six seconds off the clock.
- In the third quarter, Vanderbilt, chewed up the clock, combining on short passes and running the ball, cutting nine minutes off the clock in a 25-play drive.
E.g.
- All instructions (including 8*8 bit multiplication) are executed in 1 clock cycle.
- MEMORY STEP, a misnomer, caused the CPU to run through a single clock cycle and halt.
- The zEC12 chip can decode three instructions and execute seven operations in a single clock cycle.
E.g.
- The register was clocked by the clock signal of the system it was running on.
- For example, a clock signal is subject to the delays of any other electrical signal.
- The process of extracting the clock signal from the data stream is where jitter is introduced.
E.g.
- For example, the internal clock frequency of the original IBM PC was 4.77 MHz, that is .
- It uses differential pairs at 625 MHz clock frequency DDR for TX and RX data and TX and RX clocks.
- The bit clock frequency is the product of the sample rate, the number of bits per channel and the number of channels.