clock
Senso
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- A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
- A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A time clock.
- (informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/klɒk/
Etimologia
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.
Cognato con olandese
klok
Cognato con tedesco
Glocke
Cognato con olandese
klokken
Cognato con inglese
cluck
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