clock noun (TIME)
clock says The town-hall clock says (= shows that the time is) nine o'clock.
clock strikes The clock began to strike twelve.
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turn the clocks back (UK also put the clocks back); (US also set the clocks back)
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turn the clocks forward (UK also put the clocks forward); (US also set the clocks ahead)
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clock noun (SPEED)
on the clock I was only doing 30 mph on the clock.
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on the clock My car's only got 10,000 miles on the clock.
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clock verb [T] (TIME)
clock verb [T] (SPEED)
clock verb [T] (HIT)
Then the other guy turned round and clocked him (one) (= hit him).
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We hypothesize that zebrafish retinomotor movements are regulated by light and circadian clocks to varying degrees in different cell types.
Stopwatch in hand, he clocked fourteen successive bouts of intercourse at a rate of five seconds per act, with mere five-second intervals between acts.
The following chapter on molecular clocks is good with nice discussions of male-driven evolution and overdispersion.
The other topics include the education of architects, technical devices like sundials and water clocks, mechanical devices for war, and the ethnography of various peoples.
By comparing the light signals received from several remote clocks, one can, by quadrangulation, determine positions both in time and space.
To follow this argument, the radical clocks have to be briefly described.
The faster clocks also have a phenyl group attached to the cyclopropane ring.
Careful consideration is given to rate variation, sequence orthology, and other potential biases that may affect molecular clocks.
Examples of physical tools of justification include measurement instruments such as clocks.
Sailors would see the light and set their clocks accordingly.
Consequently, domains can not easily be used to verify properties involving constraints on clocks.
Consequently, obtaining an automaton with a reduced number of clocks is of importance.
The method we propose produces an automaton with more clocks than the previous method but its computation is faster.
Professionals, and retailers and manufacturers, were the most likely to have clocks.
Circadian clocks located in the photoreceptors and retinal neurons have been shown to regulate melatonin synthesis in the eye.
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astronomical clock
In 1088 a group he headed completed a great water-driven astronomical clock incorporating an escapement device.
atomic clock
The work on the "atomic clock" takes the time of four men, two scientists and two assistants.
circadian clock
Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock.
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