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If this output is then used as the clock signal for a similarly arranged D flip-flop ( remembering to invert the output to the input ), you will get another 1 bit counter that counts half as fast.
For example, if you wanted a clock chime, you would set the drawbars at 010010603.
But when longitude at sea is lost, it cannot be found again by any watch .” However, if such a clock were built and set at noon in London at the start of a voyage, it would subsequently always tell you how far from noon it was in London at that second, regardless of where you had traveled.
By referring to the clock when it is noon locally ( i. e. the Sun is at its highest in the sky where you are ) you can read, almost directly from the clock face, how far around the world you are from London.
For instance, if the clock shows that it is midnight in London when it is noon locally, then you are half way round the world, ( e. g. 180 degrees of longitude ) from London.
It is as if I were to say: " You surely know what ' It is 5 o ' clock here ' means ; so you also know what ' It's 5 o ' clock on the sun ' means.
Hold in this position approximately 8 seconds ( you may hear a clicking sound during this time ), then return the clock to its normal upright position.
* Why you need a clock source for the AVR?
The minute you tie yourself down to a radio or TV station, you write around the clock.
That evening Ferris received a telegram: " The last coupling and final adjustment was made and steam turned on at six o ’ clock this evening one complete revolution of the big wheel was made everything working satisfactory twenty minutes time was taken for the revolution — I congratulate you upon its complete success midway is wildly enthusiastic ".
Catching one of these bubbles entitles you to make a wish, hence the name of the clock.
Swimming with Butch O ' Hare meant that at eight o ' clock in the morning, you swam out into the ocean off Maui ; he would still be out there at three in the afternoon!
If you underclock a PC processor, and do not change the clock factor or multiplier ( the ratio between the processor and the memory clock speed ), the memory will also be underclocked.

clock and heard
Nadine's, shrill with anger -- Wally's loud and thick -- As I went to the door I heard the clock strike two.
At one point a clock is heard to strike and Brutus notes it with " Count the clock ".
For example, " I had to get up at eight o ' clock " is heard by Fibber and Molly as " I had to get a potato clock ", " I got up too early " comes out as " I got up twirly ", and his own name sounds like " Herber Tapple " ( in " Fibber Puts Up Christmas Lights ", 12 / 20 / 49 ).
Well, you've heard the expression ' His face would stop a clock '?
Crossfade had their first radio appearance (" So Far Away ") heard on 94. 5 the Buzz ( Houston, Texas ) Cage Match at 10 o ' clock p. m. where it competed with a new song every night and won out over the competition for over three weeks.
The next day, Carey was in his foulest mood, and then early the next morning, at about two o ’ clock, his daughter heard a scream from the direction of the cabin, but took no notice.
" Fleance replies, " The moon is down ; I have not heard the clock.
Afterwards, Jameel Didi began looking for a tune to accompany his poem when he heard the noon chime ( Auld Lang Syne ) of his uncle's clock.
It's four o ' clock in the West ..." would no longer be heard ), and tweaked their musical direction by focusing on less currents and more recurrents from the 1980s and 1990s, with most of the music leaning towards a rhythmic approach.
In addition to the river, other local interest items in the song include the Boston University women's curfew — " Frustrated women ... have to be in by twelve o ' clock " — and a passing mention of the Boston Strangler — " have you heard about the Strangler?
At 10 o ' clock in the evening on April 14, 1865, Meigs heard that William Seward had been attacked by a knife-wielding assailant.
Fleance and his father are not even certain of what time it is throughout, as Fleance says when asked at the beginning of the scene " The moon is down ; I have not heard the clock.
Fleance's line " The moon is down, I have not heard the clock " was the inspiration for the title of John Steinbeck's 1942 short novel The Moon is Down.
It is heard each weekday morning and weeknight at 9 o ' clock.
:: The 29th had dawned calm, but while we were still trying to persuade ourselves that the tragedy was over and the volcano had exhausted its bowels, at about 8 o ' clock, we heard a crash and then I noticed that smoke was rising from the point of the island that looks towards east.
Likewise, in the case of Canada-wide broadcasts timed to be heard at the same local hour in the rest of the country through the use of a different feed for each time zone ( most commonly the CBC's radio and TV networks ), Newfoundland uses Atlantic-time broadcasts, so references to programs being at " six o ' clock, six-thirty in Newfoundland " are commonly heard across Canada.
That year, Schmidt heard perhaps the first boos ever by Detroit fans when he ran out the clock, instead of trying to break a 20 – 20 deadlock against Green Bay.
At the age of twenty-one, the son visited Dublin to inspect a clock of curious construction of which he had heard.
Madoc's voice can be heard reading Bible quotations on a variant of the VoCo alarm clock.
The astonished people then heard the village clock chiming twelve and realised that the main clock in the house had been put forward by ten minutes.

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He becomes the first person to ever complete the Trinity Great Court Run – running around the college courtyard in the time it takes for the clock to strike 12.
The clock uses the seventh bell to strike the hours.
A common cold-cathode application is in neon signs and other locations where the ambient temperature is likely to drop well below freezing, The Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster ( Big Ben ) uses cold-cathode lighting behind the clock faces where continual striking and failure to strike in cold weather would be undesirable.
Just as at night we hear the clock strike and know not how long we have slept, so too, and how much more, are in death a thousand years soon past.
On the still-dark morning of the execution, Stephen waits alone for the clock to strike (" Four O ' Clock ").
It follows that mechanism is a form of thoroughgoing determinism: if all phenomena can be explained entirely through the motion of matter under physical laws, then just as surely as the gears of a clock completely determine that it will strike 2: 00 an hour after it strikes 1: 00, all phenomena are completely determined by the properties of that matter and the operations of those natural laws.
One scene in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire recreates a race in which the runners attempt to round the perimeter of the Great Court at Trinity College, Cambridge in the time it takes the clock to double strike the hour at midday or midnight.
Many have tried to run the 367 metres ( 401 yards ) around the court in the 43. 6 seconds that it takes to strike 12 o ' clock.
The only exception would be if teams agree to a draw because of severe weather conditions ( if severe weather strikes when a game is tied once the third quarter begins, including overtime, or during overtime, if one team scores in an overtime period, and the other team had not finished their series when the weather situation occurs ( lightning ), and the delay is excessively long, the teams may agree to a draw for the safety of the players ; the NCAA rules are stringent on lightning delays, requiring a minimum 30-minute delay upon the first detected lightning strike within 10km of the venue, and each lightning strike detected at the venue results in an automatic resetting of the clock ).
Many have tried to run the 341 metres around the court in the 43 seconds that it takes to strike 12 o ' clock ( actually 24 chimes owing to an odd old tradition ), a feat recreated in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire ( though filmed in Eton College, not Trinity ).
The Coryell offense has the ability to both " eat the clock " with the ground game but also to strike deep and fast without warning.
One scene in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire recreates a race in which the runners attempt to round the perimeter of the Great Court at Trinity College, Cambridge in the time it takes the clock to double strike the hour at midday or midnight.
Many have tried to run the 367 metres ( 401 yards ) around the court in the 43. 6 seconds that it takes to strike 12 o ' clock.
Every hour, a timekeeper emerges from the upper deck of the clock to strike a gong as many times as it is the hours of the day.
At the top of the tower-like container that holds the show, there is a painted clock, hands perpetually at one minute to midnight and above that, a tik-tok dragon so lifelike as to strike awe in the hearts of all who see it.
As they share a kiss, the clock begins to strike midnight, and Cinderella flees before the magic wears off ; but in her haste, she drops a glass slipper.
On the façade is a chiming clock, with figures of giants, perhaps representing Gog and Magog, who strike the bells with their clubs.
He looks forward and sees the clock strike 11 PM and the same ominous smile he has seen so many times already.
As often as you hear the clock strike the third hour immerse yourself completely in My mercy, adoring and glorifying it, invoke its omnipotence for the whole world, and particularly for poor sinners, for at that moment mercy was opened wide for every soul.

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