The phrase "a clock by which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a clock that serves as a means to measure or indicate time in relation to an event or action.
Example: "He set a clock by which he would wake up every morning at 6 AM."
Alternatives: "a clock that indicates" or "a clock used to measure".
Ms. Poulet was responsible for many significant acquisitions, among them an 1809 terra cotta bust by the Neoclassical sculptor Joseph Chinard and "The Dance of Time: Three Nymphs Supporting a Clock by Lepautre," which features a movement by the artisans who worked for Louis XV and Louis XVI, as well as a terra cotta sculpture base by Clodion.
When Cervantes invented Don Quixote's madness, and propelled him out onto the Castilian plains to enact it, he set ticking a little hermeneutical clock, by which, miraculously, we are still trying to tell time.
For one thing, it's a clock radio, by which it has an AM/FM radio built in and which is tied to the clock's alarm timer.
Tells about the famous Nuremburg clock by which the Nurem burgers set their watches.
Most blind people manage to adjust themselves successfully to the clock by which the sighted world runs.
Each variable x ∈ V stores a value of its domain dom(x),and it is declared in the scope of a clock, which is given by clock(x).
Long Now Foundation Director of a project which aims to peer into the future of humanity by building a clock which will operate for 10,000 years.
It's about a young man who wins a contest by inventing a clock which, on the hour, produces lifelike figures.
They present a clock sampling algorithm which tolerates attacks by this adversary, collisions, a bounded amount of losses due to ambient noise, and a bounded number of captured nodes that can jam, intercept, and send fake messages.
Hook fears the crocodile, but is warned of its approach by the ticking of a clock which it has swallowed.
Jo Ebergen, an engineer at Sun, says that reducing the "skew" on a chip the amount by which clock signals might be out of synch takes a very skilful chip designer.
