Sentence examples for an accurate clock from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, we prove that the algorithm converges with probability one, which means that an accurate clock synchronization is achieved.

As our scheduler is based entirely off a 24 hour clock, and we planned for our device to have its batteries changed more often than it was programmed, it was important that we retained an accurate clock through power outages to the main device.

Since it gets its time from the GPS satellites, all of which contain on-board atomic clocks, if your watch stops you'll always have an accurate clock handy.

The argon builds up when one of the mineral's major components, potassium, radioactively decays over millions of years--providing an accurate "clock" that reveals when the alunite formed.

At the beginning of November, the sun is about 16.25 minutes behind an accurate clock, so that noon, as measured by a sundial, actually occurs at 12 16 p.m.

Meanwhile, the determination of longitude continued to involve approximations and guesswork: its true calculation required an accurate clock which permitted comparison between noon aboard ship and the exact time at a fixed point, such as the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.

A GPS satellite is a very accurate clock broadcasting a time signal, which slows because of its motion as seen from the ground.

Each GPS satellite contains an extremely accurate clock and continually broadcasts its location and time, known as ephemeris data.

That makes this pulsar an extremely accurate clock, one that will help astrophysicists understand how some compact stars spin up to fantastic speeds.

His realization was that the solution wouldn't come from improved astronomical readings, as many thinkers believed, but from an extremely accurate clock that could tell the time of the home port while at sea.

For past labs in this course, the PIC32 relied on the internal RC oscillator to generate the clock, which while the datasheet claims good accuracy, we decided to use an 8 MHz external crystal oscillator to provide a more accurate clock.