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Recent Examples of atomic clock
The first of the new generation of quantum technologies to be broadly deployed in orbit will be highly precise optical atomic clocks.
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Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
The study of physics itself could be revolutionized by using nuclear clocks alongside atomic clocks, according to Zhang.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
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.
—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
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Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
The study of physics itself could be revolutionized by using nuclear clocks alongside atomic clocks, according to Zhang.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atomic clock
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Their day starts, as always, with an alarm clock that activates a Rube Goldberg-like machine.Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
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Entertainment & Arts Princess Zelda is the year’s most butt-kicking childless cat lady Oct. 1, 2024 Opinions from sleep experts vary on the use of alarm clocks.Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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Those in favor of seasonal time clock changes cite children walking to school in the dark with daylight saving time used in the winter.Sheldon H. Jacobson, Boston Herald, 30 Oct. 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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There, firefighters were seen retrieving what looked like about two dozen photo albums, a grandfather clock and several other possible antiques from the house.Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Mercury found its way into thermometers, mirrors, telescopes, paint, and the pendulums of grandfather clocks.Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 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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