Sentence examples for measures time and from inspiring English sources

How a clock measures time and how you perceive it are quite different.

"A meridian," a placard on an observatory exhibit declares, "is an arbitrary north-south line drawn by an astronomer". This imaginary line from which the world measures time and distance could have been drawn anywhere on the globe.

In that sense the clock may even be a mechanical model of civilization's own project, both in how it measures time and in the fact that it succeeds in measuring it at all.

Perhaps there's some formula involved in picking out the ones worthy of a public response – some sort of computer model that measures time and effort against the votes you might get, the donors and lobby groups you can afford to upset and the sort of reaction you can expect from the mainstream media.

Look at the unknown 18th-century woman who has stitched her entire world into a coverlet, beginning with the clock at the centre that measures time and life, radiating out through the day's objects – comb, thimble, scissors, the very needle she is using right now – to the emblems of her home and the garden beyond, where the spring birds arrive, then depart for the winter sun.

IPAQ measures time and energy expenditure in the past 7 days.

He measured time and space to near-perfection to take the first round.

Quantum mechanically, mass can be used to measure time and vice versa.

It has made possible new, highly accurate techniques for measuring time and distance.

Concealed neon lighting keys this time line to the spectrum shifts astronomers use to measure time and distance.

Early scientific investigators were far more proficient at measuring time and space than understanding heat and energy.