The phrase "a distinct click" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a clear or noticeable sound, often in contexts related to technology or mechanics.
Example: "When I pressed the button, I heard a distinct click that confirmed the device was activated."
Alternatives: "a clear click" or "a noticeable click".
My heart sinks: I now recall a distinct click.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, this pen was born as a highlighter with a distinct click to mask fine lines and under-eye circles and to brighten the face.
About "2 to 3 seconds" before the ringing stops and the pause indicating that the machine is about to respond, there is a distinct click on the line.
Using your thumb, push the shell straight up into the loading flap until you hear and feel a distinct click.
If you don't have one, though, make a distinct clicking noise with your mouth, or you can use a pen that makes a clicking sound.
Most laptop keyboards are silent, but some clunkier, older PC models may produce a distinct rapid clicking noise as you bang out work emails from your Wi-Fi-equipped airplane cabin.
What really grabbed the marine biologists' attention, however, were the distinct clicks made by sperm whales.These animals are not unheard of in the Mediterranean basin.
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For the other half of subjects (N = 16), each auditory stream was a band-pass filtered click train with a distinct pitch and timbre (synthetic vowels /u/ and /a/; F0 of 175 and 195 Hz), and the events were small changes in the timbre of the stream generated by slightly modulating the first and second formant frequencies (F1 and F2, Figure 1E).
You may feel a distinct surge of fellow-feeling for the stenographer clicking away on a machine at stage left, or at least the actor dutifully portraying him.
And then there's the clicking of the keys -- a distinct liability when it comes to note-taking in, say, church.
