clock

Significado (Inglés)

1. A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
2. A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
3. The odometer of a motor vehicle.
4. An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
5. The seed head of a dandelion.
6. A time clock.
7. (informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
8. A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.

reloj

Reloj

el reloj

medidor del tiempo

escarabajo del estiercol

escarabajo estercolero zumbador

o’clock

time-piece

time piece

dor beetle

horologium

measure time

clock oscillator

timing clock

common dor beetle

dumble dor

lousy watchman

time-of-day

Frecuencia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/klɒk/

c. 1350–1400, Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Related to Old English clucge, Dutch klok, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka. Doublet of cloak and cloche.