Sentence examples for ordinary clock from inspiring English sources

We are reminded of how little was known about flying in space at the start, how rudimentary were the first control rooms (in a blockhouse at Cape Canaveral the console was little more than an ordinary clock and an intercom panel with a rotary dial phone) and how great were the pressures to get Americans into orbit.

This is no ordinary clock radio!

The objective duration of E is the amount of ordinary (clock) time that experience E takes up.

Stimuli with 40 msec duration or shorter are experienced as "time points" ' (2004 2966) But for the reason just given, this does not tell us how long – in ordinary clock time – these subjectively durationless experiences last.

One trillion seconds of ordinary clock time equals 31,546 years.

One hand makes a full rotation around the clock over a 24-hour period, so it's basically moving at half the speed of an ordinary clock.

Ordinary clocks were of no use at sea due to temperature changes and the ship's motion.

Extensional theorists, by contrast, regard specious presents as extending a short distance through ordinary clock-time, in just the way they seem to.

There are issues involving the relationship between specious presents and the wider world – in particular, ordinary clock-time – which were not there examined.

The contents in any given Retentional specious present exist simultaneously – at least as measured by ordinary clock-time – but if they are to generate the appearance of succession they must avoid leaving the impression that the events they represent also occur simultaneously.

Unlike ordinary clocks, the P clock displays time as a complex three-dimensional composition, bursting from the center.