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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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Then explore sleep trackers and smart alarm clocks that wake you up at the optimal point in your sleep cycle.Jodie Cook, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The announcement of Nintendo Music comes not long after a handful of other surprise, non-Switch 2 reveals from Nintendo, including the launch of an alarm clock and a mysterious MMO that’s currently in testing.Andrew Webster, The Verge, 30 Oct. 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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The main thing that sets this revival apart from past revivals (besides Marianne Elliott’s consummate directing), is the gender switch from Bobby, a swinging sixties bachelor, to Bobbie, a less-swinging single whose biological time clock is getting louder.Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
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But the only way to get the grandfather clock that features the Martinsville Speedway logo with the race date is to win a NASCAR Cup Series Race, a NASCAR Xfinity Series or NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville.Bruce Martin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Humans have long kept time to regular phenomena, from the waxing and waning of the moon to the lulling swings of the pendulum in a grandfather clock.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 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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