Sentences with phrase «clock keep time»

These sorts of clocks keep time by counting the number of oscillations in the alternating current they receive, which also powers them; in other words, the number of times the flow of electricity changes directions every second.

(Cf E. Pennisi, «Multiple Clocks Keep Time in My Tissues,» in Science,, 278, No. 5343 (1997 (1560 - 1561).

Chip - scale atomic clocks keep time well enough for many applications requiring timing synchronization over short periods, such as GPS receivers.

A new type of clock keeps time by weighing the smallest bits of matter, physicists report.

Meanwhile, an array of digital clocks keeps time in twelve different time zones.

Not exact matches

Instead of delivering 50 Hz - which is what mains - powered European clocks expect to get if they're to keep accurate time - the European grid has averaged 49.996 Hz, which is enough of a disruption, over a couple of months, to make all these clocks lose almost 6 minutes.

Regular to - bed and wake times keep biological sleep clocks on track and make it easier to avoid sleep troubles.

A lot of electric clocks, such as those on many radios and ovens, still keep time by synchronizing themselves to the frequency of the mains electricity supply, rather than an inbuilt quartz crystal (which is more expensive) or by connected to a «time server» on the Internet (more expensive still).

Maybe you've done well organizing your own calendar but the minutiae of emailing someone to coordinate schedules and having to keep an eye on the clock during a strategic meeting so you can leave in time for a conference call has become distracting.

Keep an eye on the clock as you talk with them, and wrap up the conversation when the time is up.

The clocks at that time didn't improve the efficiency of the staff during their time at the workplace; a shop assistant kept at work by the loss of wages if they clock out early might still have been leaning on a counter with nothing to do in an empty showroom.

The clockmaker then confessed his clocks weren't keeping time too well either, and he set them each afternoon by the factory's closing time whistle!

The best way to harmonize the clocks, Leibniz argued, would be to construct them with a common, functional mechanism so that they both kept the same time; this, surely, would be expected of a supremely good God.

To illustrate this point, Leibniz used the analogy of two clocks and asked how they could be harmonized to keep the same time.

This helps to avoid mushy vegetables or having to keep an eye on the clock to add the vegetables at just the right time to cook them without overcooking them.

Then, bang, you and she are done, and her eyes are flashing to her day planner, the one she keeps gorging with duties, 10:25 appointments crowbarred between 10:15 s and 10:30 s. All etched in perfect calligraphy, this hand - to - hand combat with Time, with neat arrows pointing to peripheral obligations that she can attend to simultaneously, without assigning them a minute of their own, with key meetings underlined and very important appointments blinking exclamation points!!!! Soon Michelle and all her teammates are carrying day planners, opening them together at Pat's command to fill up a stray half hour here, a vagrant hour there, even to transcribe her annual reminder in late October: Don't forget to turn back your clocks one hour!

By protecting the boundaries, the Saints could tackle the receiver in bounds, keeping the clock running and letting time expire.

The world leads kept coming, France's world indoor silver medalist Pascal Martinot - Lagarde having his winning time in the 110m hurdles adjusted to 13.12 for the quickest run so far this year as British champion Will Sharman clocked 13.38 for fourth ahead of Olympic bronze medallist Hansle Parchment and 2011 world champion Jason Richardson.

Accent your space with a whiteboard or small chalkboard for quick notes or reminders, leave a freestanding clock on your desk to help manage your time and complete the look with a 12 - month agenda to keep you organized.

They sleep around the clock, and because their tiny stomachs don't hold hold enough breast milk or formula to keep them satisfied for long, they wake often to eat — no matter what time of day or night it is.

Keep an eye on the clock and put the babies in a dark, quiet room after an hour of wake time.

I kept a chart right next to the changing table to track the time I changed him (taped up a clock and a pen on a string next to the chart, and just circled the numbers and times).

Teachers rely on the clock to keep to their schedule throughout the day so a gorgeous watch helps them ensure they're on time for each part of their day.

❍ Look at the clock when your baby begins to cry Make a note of the time your baby begins to cry on your sleep chart and keep track of the duration and intensity of his cries.

Keep in mind that if your child has dropped their nap, they should now be clocking the full 12 - 12.5 hours of sleep at nighttime, so bedtime should reflect that based on what time they normally wake up in the morning.

If you're really keen on keeping your child on the same schedule, you can wake them 1 hour early on the day of the time change so as not to see any lasting effects from the time shift (however if your child has a very strong internal clock, you may find them still not able to fall asleep until their «usual» bedtime).

Diet choices also impact our circadian rhythms which keep our body clock and bodily functions — including falling asleep and waking up — running on time.

But, for the first week she was home we had her sleeping round the clock (she was slightly premature, so a very sleepy baby) in the pack and play in our living room, with one of us awake and keeping vigil over her at all times, taking shifts!

Of course, there are puzzle apps and computer games as well but as with all electronics, parents need to keep an... MORE eye on the clock to be sure kids don't get too much screen time.

It allows you to clock the time on each breast, and it keeps you updated of which breast you should nurse on next.

Entanglement could also improve the world's best clocks, which keep time via the vibrations of atoms.

The diversity of the various cell types displaying circadian clock activity suggests that for many tissues correct timing is important enough to warrant keeping track of it locally.

This is a major step toward a nuclear clock that could keep even better time than today's best atomic timekeepers.

To avoid the safety hazards associated with losing crucial time - keeping signals, most satellite navigation systems already maintain their own internal clocks, and they don't use the leap second.

So if the relative strength of these forces changes, it would show up as a divergence in the time kept by a nuclear clock compared with an atomic clock, a technique that could be the most sensitive yet for seeing this effect.

Researchers long believed the brain was ruled by a single clock that kept all its disparate activities in sync, like a pacemaker that sends out a regular pulse — a sort of cerebral Greenwich mean time.

On Tuesday night the clocks will stand still at 23:59:60 to keep our time in sync with the universe.

A network of ultra-precise atomic clocks could be kept in sync with the spooky property of entanglement, creating the first truly global time stamp

But the birds» internal clocks can't keep up with their nonstop movement, apparently, and they become out of phase with local time.

The refrigerator - size device, shown here and built in 2000, measures the frequency at which mercury ions oscillate between a higher and lower energy state, then uses that alternation to keep time — similar to a pendulum in a grandfather clock.

The results of the research team revealed the ovules keep track of time during meiosis using a process similar to a molecular «alarm clock.»

2 To keep this from happening again, humanity will adopt «reality saving time» and set its clocks forward eight hours.

And we need more research about how we can help evening types cope with the higher effort of keeping their body clock in synchrony with sun time.»

It will be interesting, she says, to see if the clock will keep time for later milestones, such as events related to reproduction.

«Because clock proteins need to keep time, there should be some basic principles of biological timekeeping shared between all clocks regardless of whether the proteins are the same or not,» LiWang said.

For many years, these same proteins were thought to keep the daily clock running on time, since the clock can be reset in response to light.

Official civilian time is kept by the cesium NIST - F1 fountain clock, accurate to within one second every 100 million years.

But the development of optical clocks based on aluminum ions, which can keep time to within one second in roughly 3.7 billion years, allows researchers to expose those diminutive relativistic effects.

The international standard for time is set by atomic clocks — room - sized apparatuses that keep time by measuring the natural vibration of atoms in a vacuum.

The atomic clocks that keep official world time are accurate to 3 parts in 1016, so they would gain or lose less than a second in 100 million years.