How to Use atomic clock in a Sentence

atomic clock

noun

• The world’s smallest atomic clock has just hit the market, for a cool $1,500.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2011
• These are the people who maintain the atomic clocks that keep all our phones on the right time.
  — National Geographic, 17 Mar. 2017
• After all, your ovaries and uterus are not like an atomic clock.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• So an atomic clock on the moon would go at a faster pace than an atomic clock here on Earth.
  — Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2024
• The moon is less massive than Earth, thus atomic clocks on its surface tick faster.
  — Becky Ferreira, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
• And this is where the optical atomic clock’s secret weapon kicks in.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• Researchers have recorded the shortest day on Earth since the invention of the atomic clock.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
• So, don’t expect the timeline to proceed like an atomic clock.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• His accuracy would’ve made an atomic clock sit up and say: Wow, that dude is on point.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024
• White’s comedic timing was as precise as an atomic clock.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• Upgrades to atomic clock lasers may give us a more precise measurement of the second.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2022
• Scientists recorded the shortest day on Earth since the invention of the atomic clock.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022
• The fastest pulsars, spinning hundreds of times per second, make excellent clocks—on par with the best atomic clocks.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 June 2023
• This yields a 100-fold improvement over the cesium fountain clock, the gold standard for microwave atomic clocks.
  — Andrew Ludlow, The Conversation, 22 May 2020
• So atomic clocks were installed at many of the locations, and exact GPS measurements were built up over time.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2024
• One of the actual atomic clock units used in the Hafele–Keating experiment.
  — C. Renée James, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2014
• Rather than a fancy atomic clock or rat cyborgs, for instance, this tech story deals with buckets of rocks and water.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2019
• Then came the era of highly precise atomic clocks, which proved a much more stable way of defining a physical second.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• Instruments on satellites have measured the force of gravity all over the Earth to an accuracy of a few feet, which has been enough for atomic clocks in the past.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2018
• One of the experiments will be an extremely cold atomic clock.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Since the first atomic clock was built in 1949, this process has only gotten more sophisticated.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
• Strontium cycles much faster than cesium does, and that would make such an atomic clock even more precise by giving researchers even more data points to work with.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
• Satellites in these networks carry atomic clocks that resolve time within a few billionths of a second.
  — Becky Ferreira, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
• No other atomic clock had reached this level of accuracy, although the best single atomic clock in the world is 30 billion years.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2022
• It is linked to other labs around Europe by fibre-optic cables that are used to synchronise the measurements of atomic clocks.
  — The Economist, 16 June 2018
• Using atomic clocks on the satellites, the signal indicates when it was transmitted.
  — Samantha Masunaga, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• The second is defined by a process that occurs in the nucleus of a cesium-155 atom—a process that atomic clocks can calculate with stunning accuracy.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2023
• Those discoveries, called the first quantum revolution, led to new technologies such as lasers and the atomic clock.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2022
• Of the three technologies that led to today’s GPS inescapability, the atomic clock might be the most unexpected.
  — Larry Printz, Ars Technica, 24 June 2020
• The good news is that by making more of these highly accurate atomic clocks, scientists can use them to provide that kind of resolution across the entire globe.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024