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Plural of clock

regular plural

The plural of clock is clocks.

Forms of clock

Singularclock /klɒk/
Pluralclocks
Countablecountable and uncountable

Clocks in a sentence

  • In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN...
  • Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds.1984, The Journal of Forth Application and Research, volume 2, page 83
  • Don’t forget to put the clocks back by one hour tonight!From the entry back
  • Don't forget to put the clocks forward by one hour tonight!From the entry forward
  • The DS-3 standard uses bit stuffing to allow the clocks of its tributaries to be plesiochronous.From the entry plesiochronous

Meaning of clock

  1. noun A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
  2. noun A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
  3. noun The odometer of a motor vehicle.

Full definition of clock

Questions about the plural of clock

What is the plural of clock?
The plural of clock is clocks.
Is clock countable?
Clock is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clock (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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