Sentence examples for the atomic clock from inspiring English sources

Since 1967, the second has been defined based on 9,192,631,770 hyperfine transition of a cesium-133 atom; the atomic clock which is used to set this standard is an application of Ramsey's work.

Such is the atomic clock of New York night life.

But leave the ferocity of the atomic clock aside.

The atomic clock may have slowed a bit, but it is still ticking.

His own everyday wristwatch reset itself by radio signals from the atomic clock in Denver.

Easter , 1983 The hands of the atomic clock approach closer and closer to the midnight hour.

The atomic clocks aboard the satellites, synchronized to within nanoseconds, are used to link clocks over large geographic distances.

And the system will only work if the transmitter and receiver are perfectly synchronised.The Qualcomm team started by synchronising the base-stations using the atomic clocks of the global-positioning system (GPS) satellite network.

Because of the velocity with which the satellites orbit the earth and the weaker gravitational field that they move through, the atomic clocks on board the GPS satellites advance faster than comparable clocks on the ground.

When the pager is turned on and is in the paging coverage area, Skytel keeps track of Coordinated Universal Time, used by G.P.S. satellites, which are in turn maintained by the atomic clocks operated by the government.

And most of the building-block innovations that make GPS possible — satellites themselves, or the atomic clocks that let them coordinate their signals so precisely — were first conceived in nonmarket environments.