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Clock The Shepherd Gate Clock at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. A clock is an instrument to indicate, keep, and co-ordinate time. The word clock is derived ultimately (via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning bell. A silent instrument missing such a striking mechanism has traditionally been known as a timepiece.
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How Time Works In the continental United States there are four time zones (click here for a map): Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. When it is noon in the Eastern time zone, it is 11 a.m. in the Central time zone, 10 a.m. in the Mountain time zone and 9 a.m. in the Pacific time zone. All time zones are measured from a starting point centered at England's Greenwich Observatory. This point is known as the Greenwich Meridian or the Prime Meridian. Time at the Greenwich Meridian is known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or Universal Time. The Eastern time zone in the United States is designated as GMT minus five hours. When it is noon in the Eastern time zone, it is 5 p.m. at the Greenwich Observatory.
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time frames Time is a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.
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- —Inscription on Hermione Granger's borrowed Time-Turner. A Time-Turner is a special timepiece in which an Hour-Reversal Charm has been encased, for added stability. It is a device used for time travel, and it resembles an hourglass on a necklace.
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Weight Driven Clocks This is usually from someone moving the clock without taking the pendulum off and this puts the clock out of beat. Out of beat is a term used in clock repair that basically means the clock is going tock-tick, tock-tick, or ticktock, ticktock instead of tick tock tick tock. It is sometimes corrected by putting a matchbook or Small piece of wood under one side of the clock case to make the tick and the tock evenly spaced.
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Clock A major advance occurred in Europe around 1300 with the invention of the escapement, which allowed construction of the first mechanical clocks, which used oscillating timekeepers like balance wheels. Spring-driven clocks appeared during the 15th century. During the 15th and 16th centuries, clockmaking flourished.nalog clocks usually indicate time using angles. The most common clock face uses a fixed numbered dial or dials and moving hand or hands. It usually has a circular scale of 12 hours, which can also serve as a scale of 60 minutes, and 60 seconds if the clock has a second hand.
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Metric time Metric time properly refers to measurement of time interval, while decimal time refers to the time of day. Standard time of day is usually measured by the 24-hour clock or its closely related derivative, the 12-hour clock. These measurement systems are now based on the metric base unit of time, the second. Some proposals for alternative units of metric time are accompanied by decimal time scales for telling the time of day.
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Time Time in physics is unambiguously operationally defined as what a clock reads. Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in both the International System of Units and International System of Quantities.
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Definitions &Translations Clock. klok, n. a machine for measuring time, marking the time by the position of its 'hands' upon the dial-plate, or by the striking of a hammer on a bell: (Shak.) the striking of the hour.—n. Clock′work, the works or machinery of a clock: machinery steady and regular like that of a clock.—adj. automatic.— Go like clockwork, to go along smoothly and without a hitch.— Know what o'clock it is, to be wide awake, to know how things are.
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- Author: Brittany Walker, Teaching with Primary. Sources—MTSU. OVERVIEW. We tell time every day, whether it is by looking at our cell phones, watches, or a clock on the wall. Before cell phones and the popularity. of digital clocks, we used analog clocks to tell time. We still use analog. clocks today, especially in public places.
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Time Clock Software When I Work Time Clock is a time clock app that can be easily accessed online via desktop, iPad and Android devices. The employee timeclock software caters to small businesses and offers a range of additional employee attendance tools along with everything you would expect from a traditional timesheet app.
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Pendulum clock Vienna regulator style pendulum wall clock. 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 is a harmonic oscillator; it swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length, and resists swinging at other rates.
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Quartz clock Quartz clock. A quartz clock is a clock that uses an electronic oscillator that is regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. This crystal oscillator creates a signal with very precise frequency, so that quartz clocks are at least an order of magnitude more accurate than mechanical clocks.
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- Not to be confused with locks, clocks are programs that count in seconds, minutes, and/or hours. Clocks are fairly easy to program, and have some utility uses. By making the clock have an alarm signal, you could make it run a veriety of different farms or mob grinders.
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How do radio-controlled clocks set themselves to the atomic clock in Colorado? The time is transmitted using 53 bits and 7 separators, and therefore takes 60 seconds to transmit. A clock or watch can contain an extremely small and relatively simple antenna and receiver to decode the information in the signal and set the clock's time accurately.
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- Like a regular clock, an atomic clock keeps time according to oscillation, which is a periodic variation or movement between two entities or between two states of a single entity, created by changes in energy.
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Play clock Play clock. A play clock, also called a delay-of-game timer, is a countdown clock intended to speed up the pace of the game, and hopefully the scoring, in American football and Canadian football.
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o'clock 1 : according to the clock the time is three o'clock. 2 —used for indicating position or direction as if on a clock dial that is oriented vertically or horizontally an airplane approaching at six o'clock.
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Pendulum clock Pendulum clock. 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 is a harmonic oscillator; it swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length, and resists swinging at other rates. From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum clock was the world's most precise timekeeper, accounting for its widespread use. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries pendulum
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- Notes: The 24-hour clock is a time keeping convention where the day runs from midnight to midnight and is split into 24 hours, from hour 0 to hour 23. It is the most common system in use in the world, and is the international standard notation of time.
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- Most analog clocks today keep time in 12-hour increments – they divide the 24 hours in a day in to 12-hour periods. These clocks are generally known as 12-hour clocks. The first period of the day is called “ante meridiem”, which means before noon in Latin.
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- The earliest evidence of civilization was located in the Indus River plain, but over 1000 years later the Ganges River plain was populated, and eventually the Indus and Ganges Rivers became known as the Father and Mother of India.he earliest evidence of civilization was located in the Indus River plain, but over 1000 years later the Ganges River plain was populated, and eventually the Indus and Ganges Rivers became known as the Father and Mother of India.
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What's a Clock? There are a few key features of a clock: 1  period This is the time it takes for a clock signal to repeat. 2  Its unit of measurement is seconds. 3  The symbol for the period is T. 4  frequency Frequency is 1/T. 5  The unit of measurement is s-1, which is inverse seconds. 6  This is also sometimes called Hertz (abbreviated Hz).
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Turbocharge your taskbar clock with 1st Clock! See the date as well as the time from any time zone in your tray clock. 1st Clock displays one or several clocks, displaying time in any format from any time zone, right in the taskbar clock! You can see all the date and time information from any time zone at a glance! Specify what and how to display in the clock area, select any color, size, font and background.
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measure clock, time - measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; he clocked the runners. fathom, sound - measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line. titrate - measure by (the volume or concentration of solutions) by titration.
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Japanese clock Two separate foliot balances allow this 18th-century Japanese clock to run at two different speeds to indicate unequal hours. A Japanese clock (和時計, wadokei) is a mechanical clock that has been made to tell traditional Japanese time. Mechanical clocks were introduced into Japan by Jesuit missionaries or Dutch merchants in the 16th century.