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Clockmaker

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• Clock off

  verb 1. (intransitive, adverb) to depart from work, esp when it involves registering the time of departure on a card

• Clock on

  verb 1. (intransitive, adverb) to arrive at work, esp when it involves registering the time of arrival on a card

• Clock-radio

  noun 1. a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time. noun See radio alarm n. 1946, from clock (n.1) + radio (n.).

• Clock-puncher

  noun 1. a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.

• Clock rate

  processor, benchmark The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a […]

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