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noun 
  1. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
  2. The odometer of a motor vehicle.
This car has over 300,000 miles on the .
  1. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuit, digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: teller , kilometerteller
  • French: horloge
  • German: Tacho , Tachometer
  • Italian: orologio
  • Spanish: reloj
verb 
  1. (transitive) To measure the duration of.
  2. (transitive) To measure the speed of.
He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
  1. (context, transitive, slang) To hit (someone)
When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
  1. (slang) To take notice of.
Clock the wheels on that car!
  1. (context, UK, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
Translations: 
  • Italian: cronometrare

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