(n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.
(n.) A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time.
(n.) A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work.
(n.) One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances.
(n.) One who marks the time in musical performances.
(n.) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report has focused on the actions of melatonin and how it serves as a timekeeping hormone in the seasonal reproductive process of the ewe.
(2) The period variances of the right and left systems in the 162 instances of absolute coordination were analysed according to a method that assumes that a timekeeper function and a motor implementation function contribute independently to the variance in the periodic timing of a rhythmic movement.
(3) The jobcentre supervisor told the man that his poor timekeeping had become an issue and put him at risk of being "sanctioned".
(4) These results indicate that separate mechanisms are involved in transducing temporal cues from LD and EF cycles in the circadian timekeeping system of these nonhuman primates.
(5) In addition, these rhythms are either interdependent or subject to the same maternal timekeeping mechanism, supporting the hypothesis that the exact time of the day at which birth occurs in the rhesus monkey depends on the maternal circadian system.
(6) These age-related changes are similar to those that characterize photically entrained circadian rhythms and suggest that both components of the rat's multioscillatory circadian timekeeping system deteriorate in parallel over the life span.
(7) Pharmacological manipulations with or without the addition of lighting strategies have been used to analyze the neurochemistry of circadian timekeeping.
(8) Since Fos expression within the SCN oscillates in the absence of photoperiodic time cues and since the peak of this oscillation coincides with the circadian times when light modulates the periodicity of the SCN pacemaker, these data provide further evidence that expression of the c-fos gene may be a molecular signal in the circadian timekeeping mechanism in the SCN and its regulation by photic stimuli.
(9) Musical compositions too apparently evolved originally as a timekeeping device.
(10) It is suggested that cell-cycle timing, by counting subcycles in growing cells, may become dominated by circadian control in slowly growing natural populations and that the same subcycles may be used for circadian timekeeping.
(11) We haven’t got an outstanding candidate for captain and that is a worrying sign.” Asked about Wayne Rooney , who is vying with Robin van Persie to be named United captain by the new manager Louis van Gaal, Robson, speaking at an event in Los Angeles hosted by Bulova (Manchester United’s official timekeeper), said: “You look at it and it is a difficult one.
(12) These results suggest a timekeeping role for social cues for timing onset of the breeding season in an animal that normally relies on photoperiodic signals for temporal regulation of the seasonal reproductive cycle.
(13) This striking uniformity indicates good timekeeping.
(14) The experimental approach presented in this paper is useful because it allows systematic assessment and distinction of the input, pacemaker, and output components of a mammalian circadian timekeeping system in vivo.
(15) The precision of timekeeping is measured by the extent to which embryos, within an initially synchronous population, come to diverge in the course of their development.
(16) The lower the variation the better the timekeeping.
(17) Separable estimates of a central timekeeper component and an implementation component were derived from the total variability scores following a model developed by Wing and Kristofferson (1973).
(18) This has enabled the formulation of strategies for treatment of patients with manic depressive illness and certain sleep disorders in which disorders of circadian timekeeping may be fundamental.
(19) Eventually, Charles Moore, then the paper's editor, lost patience with Johnson's timekeeping and didn't print his column.
(20) The second type of timekeeping involves time-to-flowering.
Timepiece
Definition:
(n.) A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
Example Sentences:
(1) "No, I did not," Pistorius said, "except for the police stealing my watches, my lady," he said referring to luxury timepieces that had gone missing at the Steenkamp crime scene.
(2) After it emerged that the Brazilian FA had handed out 65 designer watches worth more than £1m at the World Cup Dyke said he had no idea the timepiece was worth so much and that he would return it as requested .
(3) The presence of timepieces and patients' use of television were associated with higher levels of mental clarity.
(4) Murray frantically searched for the £2,500 timepiece before members of his box finally told him to look in his bag.
(5) In Phase I (12 weeks), 36 patients were randomly assigned to a medication vial equipped with a cap containing a digital timepiece that displays the last time the cap was removed.
(6) Covered stands shelter nearly 10,000 seats while an executive box looks down from what, thanks to its timepiece, can only be the clock end.
(7) Results of the two-phase study showed statistically significant increases in medication compliance associated with statistically and clinically significant reductions in blood pressure for all patients using the timepiece cap.
(8) Phase II (12 weeks) combined use of the timepiece cap with other compliance aids: a pocket-size card for recording blood pressure and a blood pressure cuff for self-monitoring.
(9) A miniature gold carriage clock had been placed at his table setting, but he still checked his wrist – modest shirt buttons, no cufflinks, under a sober black suit – for his slightly battered brown wristwatch, a far cry from Sarkozy's famously expensive timepieces.
(10) The French actor Gérard Depardieu has partnered with Swiss watch manufacturer Cvstos to launch a line of new timepieces under the banner "Proud to be Russian".
(11) Patients using the timepiece cap and the card had an average compliance rate of 98.7% with mean decreases of 11 mm Hg in systolic pressure (P less than .01) and 7.64 Hg mm in diastolic pressure (P = .0001).
(12) Viewed from our lofty 21st-century vantage point, it already seems something of a timepiece: a snapshot of a specific era in US culture; a tenuous accessory to crimes that have been duly tried, sentenced and consigned to history.
(13) Subjects using the timepiece cap showed an average compliance rate of 95.1%, an average decrease in systolic pressure of 7.6 mm Hg (P = .006), and an average decrease in diastolic pressure of 8.8 mm Hg (P less than .001).
(14) They are a little easier to wear than the computer-aided spectacles it is still tinkering with, and enthusiasts will no doubt put the hi-tech timepieces on their wish lists.
(15) Timepieces with touchscreens, made by Samsung (pictured) and LG using Google's software for wearable devices, went on sale on Wednesday from the company's online shop.
(16) This method requires only a radiation-rate meter, special graph paper, and a timepiece.
(17) Ahmed Mohamed, an engineering hobbyist, made the timepiece and brought it to school in the hope of impressing teachers and fellow students in his first few weeks at MacArthur High School.