Sentence examples for conventional clocks from inspiring English sources

Unlike conventional clocks of the time, there was no need for winding and the whole system was low maintenance.

It may, however, provide more accurate dates in regions where synonymous transitions have not equilibrated than conventional clocks that combine data from synonymous transitions and synonymous transversions, or from non-synonymous changes.

The measurement may be in seconds, minutes, hours, etc., based on a conventional clock, or we may be measuring our movement in time on an atomic clock, which is the most accurate type of clock humankind has developed to measure the passage of time.

The app was just recently released and is accumulating some buzz, and rightfully so Numerical time is a universal thing and something this unusual can be appreciated by anyone who's ever watched the minutes tick by on a conventional clock.

In order to test if the investigated Platynereis circadian clock genes can indeed function in the conventional clock mechanism, we employed two assays previously used to validate the activity of presumptive core circadian clock genes of the monarch butterfly (Zhu et al., 2005, 2008).

Conventional atomic clocks work by tuning microwaves until they are exactly the right frequency to flip the spins in a beam of cesium atoms.

The optical lattice clock is the brain child of Professor Katori who says his device observes a million atoms simultaneously whereas conventional atomic clocks measure time by using single atoms.

Conventional molecular clock estimation led to an unrealistic early dating of the start of the domestication.

Because no fossil data were available to calibrate the mutation rate, we assumed a conventional molecular clock for the avian mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b gene (1 × 10-8 per site per year) [ 82, 83].

Compared to more conventional cold atom clocks such as atomic fountains, the use of isotropic light cooling simplifies both the optical part of the setup and the detection sequence, and leads to a drastic size reduction of the physics package.

With possession and 30 seconds left on the shot clock, conventional wisdom suggested the Panthers should milk as much clock as the Jayhawks would allow.