Sentence examples for ticks per second from inspiring English sources

There are TIMER_FREQ timer ticks per second, where TIMER_FREQ is a macro defined in devices/timer.h.h

Timer values are expressed as signed 64-bit numbers, which at 100 ticks per second should be good for almost 2,924,712,087 years.

For years, Intel has steadily increased the "clock speed" of its processors, the fastest of which now run at 3.4GHz, or 3.4 billion ticks per second.

A modern PC typically has a processor running at 3.0GHz (3 billion clock ticks per second), little changed from a PC made three or four years ago.

In parallel with Moore's Law, which predicts that the number of transistors on a chip increases exponentially, the clock speed has done the same, doubling roughly every 18 months from thousands of ticks per second in 1971, to millions in the 1980s, to billions today.

It was ticking away in on the bench at irregular intervals, about one tick per second, and an oscilloscope trace was registering each pulse.

WWV transmits audio "ticks" once per second, to allow for accurate manual clock synchronization.

A new clock reliably ticks nearly one million billion times per second and could be the most accurate clock ever made, report physicists in a paper published online by Science on 12 July.

Another laser that "ticks" 518 trillion times per second provokes a transition between two energy levels in the atoms.

System timer that ticks, by default, 100 times per second.

Think of it as a watch with a hand that ticks just over 9 billion times per second.