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Clocking   /klˈɑkɪŋ/   Listen
Clocking

noun
1.
The time taken to traverse a measured course.


Clock

verb
1.
Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time.  Synonym: time.



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"Clocking" Quotes from Famous Books



... were using the big turbo-linear accelerator to project fast micropositos down an evacuated tube one kilometer in length, and clocking them with light, the velocity of which has been established almost absolutely. I will say that with respect to the light, there were no observable inaccuracies at any time, and until the micropositos were accelerated ...
— Ministry of Disturbance • Henry Beam Piper
... yellow grass or a patch of black bog; not a tree nor a shrub within the sky-line. On a hot summer's day it is wearisome enough for the lonely angler to listen to the river crawling lazily through the rocks that choke his bed, mingled with the clocking of some water-moved boulder, and the chick-chick of the stonechat, or the scream of the golden plover overhead. But on a wild winter's evening, when day is fast giving place to night, and the mist shrouds the hill, and ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... hen is clocking to brood, and she is the best mother in the yard. Besides, it is time that the cowslip wine were made, and I will give you some bread and cheese and gingerbread for noonchin, so that you may fill your baskets in the meadows before ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... took up efficiency engineering he went at the the job with all his customary thoroughness. He did not fool around clocking the crew with a stop watch, counting motions and deducting the ones used for borrowing chews, going for drinks, dodging the boss and preparing for quitting time. He decided to cut out ...
— The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan • W.B. Laughead


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