caesium clock

noun

Definitions

  1. A type of highly accurate atomic clock that is regulated by a resonance frequency of…

    A type of highly accurate atomic clock that is regulated by a resonance frequency of caesium atoms (the same frequency, 9,192,631,770 Hz, on which the precise scientific definition of the second is based).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for caesium clock. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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