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10 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Regulate \Reg"u*late\ (-l[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Regulated} (-l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr & vb n. {Regulating}.] [L. regulatus p. p. of regulare, fr regula. See {Regular}.] 1. To adjust by rule method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. --Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police. --Bancroft. 2. To put in good order as to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances. 3. To adjust or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as to regulate the temperature of a room the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc {To regulate a watch} or {clock}, to adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time. Syn: To adjust dispose; methodize; arrange; direct; order rule govern. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beat \Beat\, n. 1. A stroke; a blow. He with a careless beat Struck out the mute creation at a heat. --Dryden. 2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. 3. (Mus.) a The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. b A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. 4. (Acoustics & Mus.) A sudden swelling or re["e]nforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See {Beat}, v. i., 8. 5. A round or course which is frequently gone over as a watchman's beat 6. A place of habitual or frequent resort. 7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as a dead beat [Low] {Beat of drum} (Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack, or retreat, etc {Beat of a watch}, or {clock}, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat according as the strokes is at equal or unequal intervals. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Clock \Clock\, n. [AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell, G. glocke, Dan. klokke Sw klocka Icel. klukka bell, LL clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin; cf Ir & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf {Cloak}.] 1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. 2. A watch, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] --Walton. 3. The striking of a clock. [Obs.] --Dryden. 4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. --Swift. Note: The phrases what o'clock? it is nine o'clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock, etc {Alarm clock}. See under {Alarm}. {Astronomical clock}. a A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces. b A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc {Electric clock}. a A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism. b A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus. {Ship's clock} (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship's watches. {Sidereal clock}, an astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Clock \Clock\ (kl[o^]k), v. t. To ornament with figured work as the side of a stocking. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Clock \Clock\, v. t. & i. To call as a hen. See {Cluck}. [R.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Clock \Clock\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle ({Scarab[ae]us stercorarius}). From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: clock n : a timepiece that shows the time of day v : measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners" [syn: {time}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: clock 1. n 1. [techspeak] The master oscillator that steps a CPU or other digital circuit through its paces. This has nothing to do with the time of day although the software counter that keeps track of the latter may be derived from the former. 2. vt To run a CPU or other digital circuit at a particular rate. "If you clock it at 100MHz, it gets warm.". See {overclock}. 3. vt To force a digital circuit from one state to the next by applying a single clock pulse. "The data must be stable 10ns before you clock the latch." From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: clock A processor's clock or one {cycle} thereof. The relative execution times of instructions on a computer are usually measured by number of clock cycles rather than seconds. One good reason for this is that {clock rate}s for various models of the computer may increase as technology improves, and it is usually the relative times one is interested in when discussing the {instruction set}. (1994-12-16) From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him A busy man complained one day: "I get no time!" "What's that you say?" Cried out his friend, a lazy quiz; "You have sir, all the time there is There's plenty, too and don't you doubt it -- We're never for an hour without it." Purzil Crofe
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