Sentence examples for clock to gauge from inspiring English sources

Many organisms such as cyanobacteria, fruit flies, mammals and plants have an endogenous time-keeping mechanism, a circadian clock, to gauge daily and seasonal environmental changes.

We use external time-keepers, such as clocks or watches, to gauge the apparent lengths of our experiences, and consequently we employ units such as 'second' and 'minute' to refer to both objective and subjective durations.

A so-called internal clock mechanism in birds involves the ability to gauge the angle of the Sun above the horizon.

In total, in the past sixty-nine years, the clock has been changed twenty-two times, giving the world an easy way to gauge the likelihood that our species will destroy itself.

"It's hard to gauge.

Hard to gauge.

Humor is hard to gauge, of course.

For Nova, confidence is tricky to gauge.

Precise numbers are difficult to gauge.

Developing metrics to gauge performance.

Fish: inspect the eye to gauge freshness.