Sentence examples for term clock from inspiring English sources

An additional note should be given on the term clock, because it is often used for different concepts.

We propose a test of the gravitational time dilation in general relativity by long term clock comparison between two stations separated in height.

Using more than one clock in a system is a quite common approach to deal with timing, synchronization, and independent execution in synchronous systems, even though the term clock can be misleading since it is used for many different concepts: a hardware developer will probably understand by clock a periodic signal whose occurrence is based on a fixed physical time.

Here the term "clock" refers to the oscillatory gene expression in the PSM and the term "wavefront" refers to the moving interface between the PSM and the determined somite tissue.

In such applications, experiments have shown that even clock skew correction cannot maintain long-term clock synchronization and a quadratic model of clock variations can better capture the dynamics of the actual clock model involved, hence increasing the resynchronization period and conserving significant energy.

Ganeriwal et al. [7] designed a prediction-based algorithm to model long-term clock skew between two sensor node clocks t u and t v. Wu et al. [21] and Elson et al. [12] developed similar concepts, demonstrating thus its suitability for WSNs.

The shape of the upper part of the case inspired the term banjo clock, a name Willard did not use.

The term "atomic clock" is often misunderstood, said Michael Newman, a spokesman for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which provides the official time for the United States.

Very few were ever made to go on wall brackets, and the term bracket clock first appeared in the 19th century.

I suspect it was an opinion so radical in its implications – a kind of jurisdictional nuclear option — that Justice Thomas was unable to hold a majority, and that the court remained so divided in the aftermath that no one else could put together a majority as the term's clock ran out.

This rhythmic spontaneous SR Ca2+ release/spark shows inherent rhythmicity, giving rise to the term "calcium clock" [44,46].