as in clock
a device to measure time
the museum includes some ancient water clocks and sundials in its collection of historical timekeepers
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The company will also serve as the official timekeeper for the match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2024
How Cells Keep Time When Johnson entered graduate school in the 1970s, scientists knew that circadian clocks — organisms’ internal timekeepers for the day-night cycle — are ubiquitous in multicellular plants and animals.
—Elizabeth Landau, quantamagazine.org, 11 Oct. 2024
Like my wife, the world’s timekeepers have been forced to adjust their clocks, adding thirty-seven leap seconds since 1972.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
Tennis’s lucrative relationship with the luxury sector—one which began in 1978, when Rolex became the official timekeeper of Wimbledon—has gone quite literally meteoric.
—Nick Scott, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2024
How Cells Keep Time When Johnson entered graduate school in the 1970s, scientists knew that circadian clocks — organisms’ internal timekeepers for the day-night cycle — are ubiquitous in multicellular plants and animals.
—Elizabeth Landau, quantamagazine.org, 11 Oct. 2024
Like my wife, the world’s timekeepers have been forced to adjust their clocks, adding thirty-seven leap seconds since 1972.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
Tennis’s lucrative relationship with the luxury sector—one which began in 1978, when Rolex became the official timekeeper of Wimbledon—has gone quite literally meteoric.
—Nick Scott, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Timekeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/timekeeper. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
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