Sentence examples for master clock that from inspiring English sources
A15 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 Clocks in Grand Central To Be Synchronized Officials at Metro-North Railroad, the keepers of the clocks in Grand Central Terminal, will be improving time keeping by installing a new $59,000 master clock that will synchronize the roughly 20 clocks in the terminal by satellite every second of every day to ensure accuracy.
Next month, they will install a new $59,000 master clock that will synchronize every second of every day by satellite with the Boulder atomic clock to ensure accuracy up to a fraction of a nanosecond, which is a billionth of a second.
Daily and seasonal rhythms are coordinated in mammals by the master clock that lies in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus.
This oxytocin rhythm does not shift with changes in the light cycle (as in transmeridian travel or shift work) during gestation indicating that it is controlled by a circadian pacemaker distinct from the master clock that regulates locomotor activity.
The circadian timing system consists of a master clock that is located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus.
A region in the brain acts as a master clock that regulates these daily cycles, which are called circadian rhythms.
The pineal melatonin is considered the master biological clock that synchronizes the circadian rhythms of different clock genes throughout the body with different external 'timekeepers', such as light/dark cycles.
The problem is, the electromechanical devices in the terminal's master clock system that are sending these signals are becoming increasingly unreliable, making the clocks inaccurate.
No one knows exactly how light treatment works, but most experts seem to agree that the body has a master biological clock that responds to or is "set" by natural light fluctuations.
It is further hoped that these findings will be extended to other tissues, such as the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei the conserved master clock in mammals so that we can better understand how such compensatory mechanisms contribute to physiological and metabolic homeostasis.
The house contains busts of philosophers and statues of pre-Columbian Indians, paintings by European masters, maps and globes, and a clock that uses cannonballs for weights.
