computer clock
41clock — I Australian Slang 1. record the speed of a racehorse, racing car, runner, etc.; 2. (on pinball machines, computer games, etc.) make the digital read out of the scoreboard return to the initial position of zeros in a single game of continuous… …
42clock it — vb to defeat one s opponent, win a contest. The term may have derived from the jar gon employed in the Nintendo Game Boy computer games, or from the collo quial Americanism to clean someone s clock , meaning to defeat or confound …
43clock adjustment — F/A/V also called timing signals, used to fine tune the computer image. This function adjusts the clock frequencies that eliminate the vertical banding (lines) in the image …
44clock — An electronic circuit that generates regularly spaced timing pulses at speeds up • Stand alone (non networked) client applications, such as local word processors Applications that run on the client but request data from the server, such as… …
45clock speed — noun the operating speed of a computer or its microprocessor, expressed in cycles per second (megahertz) …
46clock rate — /ˈklɒk reɪt/ (say klok rayt) noun the fundamental rate, measured in cycles per second, at which a computer performs its basic operations, such as adding two numbers, transferring a value from one register to another, etc …
47Radio clock — A radio clock is a clock that is synchronized by a time code bit stream transmitted by a radio transmitter connected to a time standard such as an atomic clock. Such a clock may be synchronized to the time sent by a single transmitter, such as… …
48Atomic clock — Nuclear clock redirects here. For the clock as a measure for risk of catastrophic destruction, see Doomsday Clock. For a clock updated by radio signals (commonly but inaccurately called an atomic clock ), see Radio clock. For the album by Zion I …
49Real-time clock — A real time clock (RTC) is a computer clock (most often in the form of an integrated circuit) that keeps track of the current time. Although the term often refers to the devices in personal computers, servers and embedded systems, RTCs are… …
50Alarm clock — Clock radio redirects here. For the clocks synchronised by radio signals, see Radio clock. Traditional wind up (keywound), mechanical, spring driven alarm clock …
