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    second. Clocks have different ways of displaying the time. Analog clocks indicate time with a traditional clock face and moving hands. Digital clocks display...
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    typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in spring or late winter, and to set clocks back by one hour to standard time in the...
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  • Retrieved 13 July 2008. "Coldplay – Clocks". ARIA Top 50 Singles. "Coldplay – Clocks" (in Dutch). Ultratip. "Coldplay – Clocks" (in French). Ultratip. "Coldplay...
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    atomic beam magnetic resonance frequency clocks. The accuracy of mechanical, electromechanical and quartz clocks is reduced by temperature fluctuations...
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    User-settable mechanical alarm clocks date back at least to 15th-century Europe. These early alarm clocks had a ring of holes in the clock dial and were set by...
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    China, also provide early evidence of water clocks, but the earliest dates are less certain. Water clocks were used in ancient Greece and in ancient Rome...
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  • The Clock or The Clocks may refer to: The Clock (1917 film), a silent American film The Clock (1945 film), an American film The Clock (2010 film), a 24-hour...
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  • ISBN 0-00-637474-3. "Poirot The Clocks Film Focus". Kent Film Office. December 2012. The Clocks at the official Agatha Christie website The Clocks at new official Agatha...
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    by continuous processes, such as the flow of liquid in water clocks, to mechanical clocks, and eventually repetitive, oscillatory processes, such as the...
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  • J. Smith Clock (British group), an English band primarily led by Stu Allan Clocks (American band), a Wichita new wave/pop rock band Clocks (British band)...
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  • Stop the Clocks is a compilation album by English rock band Oasis. It was released on 20 November 2006 by Big Brother Recordings. The "retrospective collection"...
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    623  The home pendulum clock was replaced by less-expensive synchronous electric clocks in the 1930s and '40s. Pendulum clocks are now kept mostly for...
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  • "Time Clocks hastens Joe Bonamassa's journey into his own blues future". Classic Rock. Retrieved November 8, 2021. "JOE BONAMASSA Releases 'Time Clocks' Single...
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  • eight-day clock. All modern striking longcase clocks have eight-day mechanical quarter chiming and full hour striking movements. Most longcase clocks are cable-driven...
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    for chess clocks and different methods of time control may be employed on the clocks, with "sudden death" being the simplest. A chess clock consists of...
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    precise frequency, so that quartz clocks and watches are at least an order of magnitude more accurate than mechanical clocks. Generally, some form of digital...
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  • Time dilation is the difference in elapsed time as measured by two clocks, either because of a relative velocity between them (special relativity), or...
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    not "two thousand". The first mechanical public clocks introduced in Italy were mechanical 24-hour clocks which counted the 24 hours of the day from one-half...
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  • value, but presently binary clocks also exist which display hours, minutes, and seconds as binary numbers. Most binary clocks are digital, although analog...
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    only at full hours in eight-day clocks and both at full and half hours in the one-day timepieces. Musical cuckoo clocks frequently have other automata...
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    prior to the 18th century even home clocks were rare. The first clocks did not have faces, but were solely striking clocks, which sounded bells to call the...
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    master clock to the slave clock, the phase of the slave clocks are adjusted so that both clocks are in phase. Thus, the time markers of both clocks, at the...
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    Mantel clocks—or shelf clocks—are relatively small house clocks traditionally placed on the shelf, or mantel, above the fireplace. The form, first developed...
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    system. Comparing two clocks either produces a true negative (the clocks are not comparable), or else a suggestion that one clock precedes the other, with...
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    count seconds accurately were pendulum clocks invented in the 17th century. Starting in the 1950s, atomic clocks became better timekeepers than Earth's...
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  • more specialized applications, such as astronomical clocks and chronometers. Most analog clocks and watches today use the 12-hour dial, on which the...
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    'true bracket clocks') that had to be mounted on a bracket on the wall to allow room for their hanging weights. When spring-driven clocks were developed...
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    Some special-purpose clocks, such as timers and sporting event clocks, are designed for measuring periods less than one hour. Clocks can indicate the hour...
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    and creation of luxury clocks and carriage clocks. In 1976, the company participated in the Concorde project by fitting wall clocks in the eponymous supersonic...
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    automatically set clocks or for any purpose where accurate time is needed. Radio clocks may include any feature available for a clock, such as alarm function...
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