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单词 atomic clock
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Definition of atomic clock in English:

atomic clock

noun
  • An extremely accurate type of clock which is regulated by the vibrations of an atomic or molecular system such as caesium or ammonia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The big difference between a standard clock in your home and an atomic clock is that the oscillation in an atomic clock is between the nucleus of an atom and the surrounding electrons.
    • These oscillation measurements are so accurate that an atomic clock, if left unadjusted, would gain or lose one second every 160,000 years.
    • One application of this has been the improvement of the accuracy of atomic clocks.
    • All three systems are based on atomic clocks aboard the satellites.
    • The most accurate laboratory cesium atomic clocks are thousands of times better than commercially produced units.
    • The theory should also help in the design of quantum techniques for synchronizing atomic clocks aboard satellites, which keep slightly different times because of their relative motion.
    • Its blips are so regular and stable that its accuracy can rival the most accurate atomic clock on Earth.
    • But if you were to use the world's most accurate atomic clocks, you would also need to take the latitude and altitude of the two locations into account.
    • But even with highly accurate atomic clocks, certain errors creep into the process of determining position.
    • Using atomic clocks accurate to within one second every 70,000 years, each satellite continuously broadcasts the time and its position.
    • You can however measure these tiny discrepancies using accurate atomic clocks.
    • The most accurate atomic clocks available today use the cesium atom and the normal magnetic fields and detectors.
    • In 1971 two physicists sent four atomic clocks on commercial flights around the world and found that the clocks gained or lost time in just the amounts that special relativity predicted.
    • This is achieved by continuously synchronising all on-board atomic clocks with a master clock on the ground.
    • So far, studies of relativity have yielded atomic clocks, guidance systems for spacecraft, and the Global Positioning System.
    • A phenomenon illustrating reversibility of time is the barely perceptible lag of atomic clocks transported on jets traveling at high speeds.
    • Superaccurate atomic clocks, timepieces capable of discerning a change in frequency of a few parts in a million billion, were used to monitor the potential shifts.
    • The restored clocks are reputed to be accurate to one second in one million years and are controlled by a radio signal from the caesium atomic clock at Rugby in the Midlands.
    • This may lead to applications such as more precise atomic clocks and atom lasers, which, for example, may be used in space navigation and in the developing field of quantum information.
    • By 2000, the best atomic clocks were so accurate they only lost one ten-billionth of a second a day.
    • Universal Time is kept by extremely precise atomic clocks which measure time using the frequency of atoms.
 
 

Definition of atomic clock in US English:

atomic clock

nounəˈtɑmɪk klɑk
  • An extremely accurate type of clock which is regulated by the vibrations of an atomic or molecular system such as cesium or ammonia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Using atomic clocks accurate to within one second every 70,000 years, each satellite continuously broadcasts the time and its position.
    • This is achieved by continuously synchronising all on-board atomic clocks with a master clock on the ground.
    • In 1971 two physicists sent four atomic clocks on commercial flights around the world and found that the clocks gained or lost time in just the amounts that special relativity predicted.
    • Its blips are so regular and stable that its accuracy can rival the most accurate atomic clock on Earth.
    • The most accurate laboratory cesium atomic clocks are thousands of times better than commercially produced units.
    • The theory should also help in the design of quantum techniques for synchronizing atomic clocks aboard satellites, which keep slightly different times because of their relative motion.
    • Superaccurate atomic clocks, timepieces capable of discerning a change in frequency of a few parts in a million billion, were used to monitor the potential shifts.
    • All three systems are based on atomic clocks aboard the satellites.
    • A phenomenon illustrating reversibility of time is the barely perceptible lag of atomic clocks transported on jets traveling at high speeds.
    • But if you were to use the world's most accurate atomic clocks, you would also need to take the latitude and altitude of the two locations into account.
    • You can however measure these tiny discrepancies using accurate atomic clocks.
    • This may lead to applications such as more precise atomic clocks and atom lasers, which, for example, may be used in space navigation and in the developing field of quantum information.
    • The restored clocks are reputed to be accurate to one second in one million years and are controlled by a radio signal from the caesium atomic clock at Rugby in the Midlands.
    • Universal Time is kept by extremely precise atomic clocks which measure time using the frequency of atoms.
    • But even with highly accurate atomic clocks, certain errors creep into the process of determining position.
    • These oscillation measurements are so accurate that an atomic clock, if left unadjusted, would gain or lose one second every 160,000 years.
    • The most accurate atomic clocks available today use the cesium atom and the normal magnetic fields and detectors.
    • So far, studies of relativity have yielded atomic clocks, guidance systems for spacecraft, and the Global Positioning System.
    • By 2000, the best atomic clocks were so accurate they only lost one ten-billionth of a second a day.
    • One application of this has been the improvement of the accuracy of atomic clocks.
    • The big difference between a standard clock in your home and an atomic clock is that the oscillation in an atomic clock is between the nucleus of an atom and the surrounding electrons.
 
 
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