Sentence examples for using an atomic clock from inspiring English sources

Beginning in 1845, there was also a ball dropped each noon at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington so inhabitants could reset their timepieces; it was eventually replaced by more advanced methods including today's master clock system, which automatically resets using an atomic clock.

Microsoft's network, which it calls MSN Direct, constantly transmits a signal that keeps all watches on time using an atomic clock.

The data logger maintains the time synchronization using a GPS and an atomic clock module (SA.45 s CSAC) from Symmetricom.

In the early 2000s Wineland's group used trapped ions to create an atomic clock much more accurate than those using cesium.

What is an "atomic clock"?

People would be telling time with their cell phones, which get information from an atomic clock.

But that's practically a sundial compared to an atomic clock.

Blockchains record trust like an atomic clock records time.

All the satellites are synchronized to an atomic clock, but the GPS receiver has a clock offset relative to the satellite clock.

"They do a lot of gravitational research, microgravity, especially on how astronauts perform in space and as part of that they explore atomic clocks and the different between an atomic clock in space and an atomic clock on earth.

They had on display an electric timepiece that was driven by an atomic clock.