Phrase Hound found 103 phrases and 17 compound words that contain clocks. The most common are listed below. Open clocks in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 103
- alarm clocksplural of alarm clock: A clock designed to sound an alert at a preset time, primarily to wake someone from sleep.
- analog clocksplural of analog clock: A clock that displays the time using hands that move mechanically around its face.
- atomic clocksplural of atomic clock: An extremely accurate reference clock whose operation is based on an atomic process, typically the frequency of electromagnetic radiation associated with a specified energy-level transition in an element such as …
- biological clocksplural of biological clock: Any of several mechanisms that regulate the periodicity of biological functions, such as the circadian rhythm.
- game clocksplural of game clock: A clock used to time a game, such as a chess clock.
- logical clocksplural of logical clock: A mechanism for capturing chronological and causal relationships in a distributed system.
- molecular clocksplural of molecular clock: A technique that uses the mutation rate of biomolecules to deduce the time in prehistory when two or more life forms diverged.
- radio clocksplural of radio clock: A clock that is synchronized to a remote time standard by means of radio signals.
- slave clocksplural of slave clock: A clock that is synchronized by a master clock.
- speaking clocksplural of speaking clock: A person employed to read the time over a telephone line.
- stop clocksplural of stop clock: A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.
- time clocksplural of time clock: A device that records, on (digital or paper) timecards, the times when employees begin and finish work.
- vector clocksplural of vector clock: An array of logical clocks used to determine the partial order of events in a distributed system and detect causality violations.
- water clocksplural of water clock: A device for measuring time using water, typically by measuring water flowing in or out of a basin of known size at a known rate.
- chess clocksplural of chess clock: A device consisting of two clocks and a switch for running one at a time, used in chess and other games to measure how much time each player takes.
- bracket clocksplural of bracket clock: A small pendulum clock mounted on a wall bracket to allow room for its hanging weight.
- grandfather clocksplural of grandfather clock: A longcase clock.
- astronomical clocksplural of astronomical clock: A type of clock with specialized mechanisms and dials to accurately tell astronomical information about the Sun, Moon, planets, and constellations.
- pendulum clocksplural of pendulum clock: Any clock that uses a pendulum to regulate its movement.
- cuckoo clocksplural of cuckoo clock: A clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.
- ticking clocksplural of ticking clock: A literary device in which the protagonist has a strict time limit, used to heighten tension.
- circadian clocksplural of circadian clock: The internal body clock that regulates the roughly 24-hour cycle of biological processes in animals and plants.
- cesium clocksplural of cesium clock: A type of highly accurate atomic clock that is regulated by a resonance frequency of caesium atoms (the same frequency, 9,192,631,770 Hz, on which the precise scientific definition of the second is based).
- longcase clocksplural of longcase clock: A freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock, having the pendulum and weights in a tall case.
- anniversary clocksplural of anniversary clock: A mechanical clock that keeps time by means of a torsion pendulum.
Compound words 17
- overclocksthird-person singular simple present indicative of overclock: To run a processor (CPU), or any electronic logic device, at a speed higher than is recommended by the manufacturer.
- attoclocksplural of attoclock: A device that can measure time intervals of the order of attoseconds
- bioclocksplural of bioclock: biological clock
- bumclocksplural of bumclock: A drone-beetle.
- chessclocksplural of chessclock: A device consisting of two clocks and a switch for running one at a time, used in chess and other games to measure how much time each player takes.
- clockstarA bright star with precisely known right ascension, used for determining the error of clocks used to time meridian transits
- clockstarsplural of clockstar: A bright star with precisely known right ascension, used for determining the error of clocks used to time meridian transits
- downclocksthird-person singular simple present indicative of downclock: To reduce the clock speed of.
- lightclocksplural of lightclock: A hypothetical clock, used to show time dilation, that would count the journeys of a single photon between two parallel mirrors.
- misclocksplural of misclock: An error in the synchronization or coordination of the sequence or timing of actions by a device.