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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clock speed
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, the 6x686-P200 system I tested uses a Cyrix chip with a clock speed of 166 megahertz.
▪ The new iterations will feature a higher clock speed processor and two chips per board.
▪ This is used to indicate the clock speed of computers.
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clock speed

n. (context computing English) The rate, measured in hertz, at which a processor performs its fundamental operations.

Usage examples of "clock speed".

Then it banked down into power-conserving mode, with the internal clock speed slowed by a factor of four million.

We borrowed a few commercial-grade data buses from a company in Arkansas--sixty-four-bit logic, clock speed well into triple digits, fiber optics ready, secure and hardened.

Immense freedom--to change your own clock speed, morph into anything, rebuild your own mind from top to bottom--came along with the admitted liability of not being physically real.

Immense freedomto change your own clock speed, morph into anything, rebuild your own mind from top to bottomcame along with the admitted liability of not being physically real.

It more than doubled our size and depth and breadth, and vastly increased our clock speed.