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    A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals...
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    CLOCK (backronym for circadian locomotor output cycles kaput) is a gene encoding a basic helix-loop-helix-PAS transcription factor that is known to affect...
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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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    The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the...
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    An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms. It is based on atoms having different energy levels. Electron...
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    The modern 24-hour clock is the convention of timekeeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours. This is indicated...
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    alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time. The primary function of these clocks is to...
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    A water clock or clepsydra (from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra) 'pipette, water clock'; from κλέπτω (kléptō) 'to steal', and ὕδωρ (hydor) 'water';...
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    In electronics and especially synchronous digital circuits, a clock signal (historically also known as logic beat) is an electronic logic signal (voltage...
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    82639°E / 21.41889; 39.82639 The Clock Towers (Arabic: أبراج الساعة, romanized: Abrāj al-Sāʿat, lit. 'Towers of the Clock', formerly known as Abraj Al Bait)...
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    A shot clock is a countdown timer used in a variety of games and sports, indicating a set amount of time that a team may possess the object of play before...
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  • clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock,...
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    is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower itself, which stands at the north end of the...
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    A cuckoo clock is a type of clock, typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo...
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  • Towers Clock Tower, Anantapur Clock Tower of Ateca Clock Tower, Brighton Clock Tower, Erode Clock Tower, Faisalabad Clock Tower, Herne Bay Clock Tower...
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  • The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods: a.m. (from Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before...
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  • Look up clock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A clock is an instrument for measuring time. Clock, CLOCK, or Clocks may also refer to: Clock (American...
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    90384°W / 31.44841; -104.90384 The Clock of the Long Now, also called the 10,000-year clock, is a mechanical clock under construction that is designed...
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  • Look up biological clock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Biological clock may refer to: Age and female fertility, decrease of female fertility with...
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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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    A chess clock is a device that comprises two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run...
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  • The Clocks is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 November 1963 and...
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    Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. This crystal oscillator creates...
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    In computing, the clock rate or clock speed typically refers to the frequency at which the clock generator of a processor can generate pulses, which are...
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    A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it...
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  • Look up clocker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Clocker(s) may also refer to: Clocker (train), a former Amtrak rail service Clocker (composition)...
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    The Prague astronomical clock or Prague Orloj (Czech: Pražský orloj [praʃskiː orloj]) is a medieval astronomical clock attached to the Old Town Hall in...
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    Clock towers are a specific type of structure that house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers...
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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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    Beverly Clock is a clock in the 3rd-floor lift foyer of the Department of Physics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. The clock is still...
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