as in alarm clock
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Recent Examples of atomic clock
Optical atomic clocks, accurate to picoseconds, will enable satellite constellations and ground stations to determine satellites’ locations with centimeter-level precision—avoiding potentially catastrophic in-orbit collisions.
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Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
In addition to housing famous politicians, 1 Observatory Circle is also home to a relic of history: the atomic clock, the most precise time scale in the world.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
The atomic clock’s lynchpin is the electron—to tell time, researchers use a laser to coax the electrons to jump back and forth between two specific energy levels.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
However, atomic clocks are also vulnerable to sync loss.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
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Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
In addition to housing famous politicians, 1 Observatory Circle is also home to a relic of history: the atomic clock, the most precise time scale in the world.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
The atomic clock’s lynchpin is the electron—to tell time, researchers use a laser to coax the electrons to jump back and forth between two specific energy levels.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
However, atomic clocks are also vulnerable to sync loss.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atomic clock
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It can be turned into a bedside alarm clock and a daily planner, sounding alerts for programmed meetings, tasks and appointments.New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
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The answer is room service and a retro alarm clock.Matthew Medendorp, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024
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So, if grad school and work have you at capacity, don’t worry about anyone else’s time clock for love or anything else.Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2024
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Besides the fact that Eldridge spent all of nine games at Double-A, there’s no reason to get a head start on his service time clock while occupying a 40-man spot that could be used to protect another prospect from the Rule 5 draft this winter.Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2024
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When the weights in a grandfather clock reach the bottom of their chains, the clock stops.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
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Hager likes to style grandfather clocks in foyers and hallways.Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
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At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Atomic clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atomic%20clock. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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