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wallclock

wallclock is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of wallclock

pluralwallclocks

Questions about wallclock

What is wallclock the alternative spelling of?
Wallclock is the alternative spelling of wall clock.

Words near wallclock in the dictionary

  1. wallboxes
  2. wallbreaker
  3. Wallbrown
  4. wallchart
  5. wallcharts
  6. wallclock
  7. wallclocks
  8. wallcovering
  9. wallcoverings
  10. wallcrawl
  11. wallcrawler

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