time signal
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- noun
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- So the system is something that eats a discrete time signal and generates A discrete time output signal.
- time signal broadcast
- time signal radio
- send time signals
Examples
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OK, so that's an example of processing of a continuous time signal with a corresponding continuous time system.
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I believe that cesium clocks use the crystalline vibrations of cesium, not its radioactive decay, as the time signal.
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Then count the seconds beat from the previous minute marker in the broadcast time signal to get the time of each event to the nearest second.
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Make a practice run to be sure that the time signal, voiced comments, and event marks are all clearly audible.
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At 12 noon, St. Louis sends a time signal, which takes 1 millisecond to arrive at Kansas City.
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Chronometers were getting better, and this improvement, along with the ability to send time signals by telegraph, led to the demise of the Jupiter moons system.
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(In the early years, the observatory, like most of that era, earned some income by "selling time," providing accurate time signals via telegraph to those, such as railroads, who would pay for them.)
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Both flowmeters use the Correlation Transit-Time signal-coding technique for a high signal-to-noise ratio and drift-free flow measurements in fluids ranging from clean to dirty liquids.
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The BBC began transmitting time signals in 1924 to help synchronize clocks across the country.
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In 1904, the Naval radio station broadcast the first time signal to coordinate maritime activities.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an electronic or radio signal indicating the correct time' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'time' (temporal measurement) with 'signal' (an electronic transmission). This noun-noun composition is a common, compositional pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Time signal comes from the simple practice of sending a short radio or electronic signal to mark the exact time, so people and machines could set their clocks the same. That's why a 'time signal' means a signal that gives the exact or 'official time'.