caesium clocks

A form of caesium clock — 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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noun
  1. pluralplural of caesium clock
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