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  2. Clock face - Wikipedia

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    A long minute hand makes one revolution every hour. The face may also include a second hand, which makes one revolution per minute. The term is less commonly used for the time display on digital clocks and watches. A second type of clock face is the 24-hour analog dial, widely used in military and other organizations that use 24-hour time. This ...

  3. Binary clock - Wikipedia

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    A binary clock is a clock that displays the time of day in a binary format. Originally, such clocks showed each decimal digit of sexagesimal time as a binary value, but presently binary clocks also exist which display hours, minutes, and seconds as binary numbers. Most binary clocks are digital, although analog varieties exist. True binary ...

  4. Decimal time - Wikipedia

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    The difference between metric time and decimal time is that metric time defines units for measuring time interval, as measured with a stopwatch, and decimal time defines the time of day, as measured by a clock. Just as standard time uses the metric time unit of the second as its basis, proposed decimal time scales may use alternative metric units.

  5. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    Time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually of proteins). picosecond: 10 −12 s: One trillionth of a second. nanosecond: 10 −9 s: One billionth of a second. Time for molecules to fluoresce. shake: 10 −8 s: 10 nanoseconds, also a casual term for a short period of time. microsecond: 10 −6 s: One millionth of a second. Symbol is μs ...

  6. Quartz clock - Wikipedia

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    After manufacturing, each module is calibrated against a precision clock at the factory and adjusted to keep accurate time by programming the digital logic to skip a small number of crystal cycles at regular intervals, such as 10 seconds or 1 minute.

  7. Clock - Wikipedia

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    Early clock dials did not indicate minutes and seconds. A clock with a dial indicating minutes was illustrated in a 1475 manuscript by Paulus Almanus, [48] and some 15th-century clocks in Germany indicated minutes and seconds. [49] An early record of a seconds hand on a clock dates back to about 1560 on a clock now in the Fremersdorf collection.

  8. Doomsday clock moves to 90 seconds to midnight – the ... - AOL

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    In 2020, the clock was set at 100 minutes to midnight, and remained unchanged for the next three years. Although originally intended to warn of the threat of nuclear Armageddon, the Doomsday Clock ...

  9. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    Early versions erred by less than one minute per day, and later ones only by 10 seconds, very accurate for their time. Dials that showed minutes and seconds became common after the increase in accuracy made possible by the pendulum clock. Brahe used clocks with minutes and seconds to observe stellar positions. [112]