A clock tick is a periodic time source to keep track of time delays and time outs.
Now superscaler chips will be able to issue more than one instruction for each clock tick.
And it is tempting to let the clock tick.
Upon turning 30 years old this year and hearing the biological clock tick, I began to think about starting a family.
One subroutine sets that alarm to go off in one clock tick (usually 1/60th of a second).
"It's so quiet in here I can hear my biological clock tick," she said.
For the moment he was drowsily content and examined the warm fire and listened to the clock tick.
This can destroy real-time behavior and cause clock ticks to get lost.
Not as much as a clock tick; on the mantel the minutes flickered by in digital readout.
One that, a couple of clock ticks and fast flips later, generated Mullen's second goal of the game.