caesium clock

English

Alternative forms
  • cesium clock

Noun

caesium clock (plural caesium clocks)

  1. 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).
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