How to Use atomic clock in a Sentence

atomic clock

noun

• The world’s smallest atomic clock has just hit the market, for a cool $1,500.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2011
• These are the people who maintain the atomic clocks that keep all our phones on the right time.
  — National Geographic, 17 Mar. 2017
• After all, your ovaries and uterus are not like an atomic clock.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• And this is where the optical atomic clock’s secret weapon kicks in.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• Researchers have recorded the shortest day on Earth since the invention of the atomic clock.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
• So, don’t expect the timeline to proceed like an atomic clock.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• His accuracy would’ve made an atomic clock sit up and say: Wow, that dude is on point.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024
• White’s comedic timing was as precise as an atomic clock.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• Upgrades to atomic clock lasers may give us a more precise measurement of the second.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2022
• Scientists recorded the shortest day on Earth since the invention of the atomic clock.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022
• The fastest pulsars, spinning hundreds of times per second, make excellent clocks—on par with the best atomic clocks.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 June 2023
• This yields a 100-fold improvement over the cesium fountain clock, the gold standard for microwave atomic clocks.
  — Andrew Ludlow, The Conversation, 22 May 2020
• One of the actual atomic clock units used in the Hafele–Keating experiment.
  — C. Renée James, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2014
• Rather than a fancy atomic clock or rat cyborgs, for instance, this tech story deals with buckets of rocks and water.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2019
• Instruments on satellites have measured the force of gravity all over the Earth to an accuracy of a few feet, which has been enough for atomic clocks in the past.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2018
• One of the experiments will be an extremely cold atomic clock.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Strontium cycles much faster than cesium does, and that would make such an atomic clock even more precise by giving researchers even more data points to work with.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
• No other atomic clock had reached this level of accuracy, although the best single atomic clock in the world is 30 billion years.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2022
• It is linked to other labs around Europe by fibre-optic cables that are used to synchronise the measurements of atomic clocks.
  — The Economist, 16 June 2018
• Using atomic clocks on the satellites, the signal indicates when it was transmitted.
  — Samantha Masunaga, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• The second is defined by a process that occurs in the nucleus of a cesium-155 atom—a process that atomic clocks can calculate with stunning accuracy.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2023
• Those discoveries, called the first quantum revolution, led to new technologies such as lasers and the atomic clock.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2022
• Of the three technologies that led to today’s GPS inescapability, the atomic clock might be the most unexpected.
  — Larry Printz, Ars Technica, 24 June 2020
• The good news is that by making more of these highly accurate atomic clocks, scientists can use them to provide that kind of resolution across the entire globe.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2018
• At each of the eight observatories, the EHT team installed cameras and ultra-high-precision atomic clocks.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2019
• An atomic clock must be hyper-precise for travel through deep space, where everything is bigger and mistakes quickly can add up.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 28 Aug. 2019
• The middle-of-the-night rideshare features a deep space atomic clock, solar sail, clean and green rocket fuel, and even human ashes, including an astronaut's.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2019
• Even in our technological age, distant galaxies are needed to keep atomic clocks in sync with the slowing rotation of the Earth.
  — TIME, 15 Dec. 2023
• In 1955, physicist Louis Essen created an atomic clock based on the oscillation of cesium atoms.
  — Markus Lutz, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• The measurement is then used to evaluate a suite of commercial atomic clocks, also stored in egg incubation chambers, and give them a weighted grade.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024