10 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Regulate \Reg"u*late\ (-l[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Regulated}
(-l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Regulating}.] [L.
regulatus, p. p. of regulare, fr. regula. See {Regular}.]
1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct
by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles
or laws.
The laws which regulate the successions of the
seasons. --Macaulay.
The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own
disputes, and regulated their own police.
--Bancroft.
2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state
of a nation or its finances.
3. To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate,
degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a
room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
{To regulate a watch} or {clock}, to adjust its rate of
running so that it will keep approximately standard time.
Syn: To adjust; dispose; methodize; arrange; direct; order;
rule; govern.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beat \Beat\, n.
1. A stroke; a blow.
He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute
creation at a heat. --Dryden.
2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of
the heart; the beat of the pulse.
3. (Mus.)
(a) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the
divisions of time; a division of the measure so
marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
(b) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the
one it is intended to ornament.
4. (Acoustics & Mus.) A sudden swelling or re["e]nforcement
of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced
by the interference of sound waves of slightly different
periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other
kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced
by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in
unison. See {Beat}, v. i., 8.
5. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a
watchman's beat.
6. A place of habitual or frequent resort.
7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often
emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. [Low]
{Beat of drum} (Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in
different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a
march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to
direct an attack, or retreat, etc.
{Beat of a watch}, or {clock}, the stroke or sound made by
the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of
beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal
intervals.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clock \Clock\, n. [AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell,
G. glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL.
clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin;
cf. Ir. & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf.
{Cloak}.]
1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and
other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate.
Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is
often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of
a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to
be carried on the person.
2. A watch, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] --Walton.
3. The striking of a clock. [Obs.] --Dryden.
4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a
stocking. --Swift.
Note: The phrases what o'clock? it is nine o'clock, etc., are
contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the
clock, etc.
{Alarm clock}. See under {Alarm}.
{Astronomical clock}.
(a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating
pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy,
for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a
regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for
regulating timepieces.
(b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain
astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon,
position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time,
etc.
{Electric clock}.
(a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or
electro-magnetism.
(b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording
apparatus.
{Ship's clock} (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one
to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the
divisions of the ship's watches.
{Sidereal clock}, an astronomical clock regulated to keep
sidereal time.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clock \Clock\ (kl[o^]k), v. t.
To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clock \Clock\, v. t. & i.
To call, as a hen. See {Cluck}. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clock \Clock\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle ({Scarab[ae]us
stercorarius}).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
clock
n : a timepiece that shows the time of day
v : measure the time or duration of an event or action or the
person who performs an action in a certain period of
time; "he clocked the runners" [syn: {time}]
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
clock 1. n 1. [techspeak] The master oscillator that steps a CPU or
other digital circuit through its paces. This has nothing to do with the
time of day, although the software counter that keeps track of the
latter may be derived from the former. 2. vt. To run a CPU or other
digital circuit at a particular rate. "If you clock it at 100MHz, it
gets warm.". See {overclock}. 3. vt. To force a digital circuit from one
state to the next by applying a single clock pulse. "The data must be
stable 10ns before you clock the latch."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
clock
A processor's clock or one {cycle} thereof. The relative
execution times of instructions on a computer are usually
measured by number of clock cycles rather than seconds. One
good reason for this is that {clock rate}s for various models
of the computer may increase as technology improves, and it is
usually the relative times one is interested in when
discussing the {instruction set}.
(1994-12-16)
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern
for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
A busy man complained one day:
"I get no time!" "What's that you say?"
Cried out his friend, a lazy quiz;
"You have, sir, all the time there is.
There's plenty, too, and don't you doubt it --
We're never for an hour without it."
Purzil Crofe