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wall clocks

wall clocks is the plural of wall clock.

Meaning of wall clock

Noun

wall clock (plural wall clocks)

  1. A clock mounted on a wall.
  2. The measure of wall time, the actual amount of time taken from the start to the end of an operation.
    • In recent years a consensus has been reached among many scientists in the field that the most relevant measure of run time is actual wall-clock elapsed time.1996, Roger W. Hockney, The Science of Computer Benchmarking, SIAM, →ISBN, pages 19–20

Questions about wall clocks

What is wall clocks the plural of?
Wall clocks is the plural of wall clock.

Words near wall clocks in the dictionary

  1. wall chart
  2. wall charts
  3. wall chaser
  4. wall chasers
  5. wall clock
  6. wall clocks
  7. wall cloud
  8. wall clouds
  9. wall covering
  10. wall coverings
  11. wall crawler

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