clocklike
adjective
clock·like
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Definition of clocklike
: unusually regular, undeviating, and precise
does his job with clocklike efficiency
Examples of clocklike in a Sentence
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As its inflating interior forms a new universe, its energy incrementally ticks down in clocklike fashion each time the expanding circle winds around the cylinder’s circumference and overlaps itself. — Quanta Magazine, "Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles," 19 Apr. 2016 The radio emissions themselves, Dr. Chatterjee said, resemble the blasts from pulsars — the spinning neutron stars that emit clocklike pulses of radiation and whose discovery in 1968 did indeed elicit speculation about little green men. — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, "Radio Bursts Traced to Faraway Galaxy, but Caller Is Probably ‘Ordinary Physics’," 4 Jan. 2017 As its inflating interior forms a new universe, its energy incrementally ticks down in clocklike fashion each time the expanding circle winds around the cylinder’s circumference and overlaps itself. — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, "Triangles in the Sky Tell the Story of the Universe’s Birth," 23 Apr. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'clocklike.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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