wall clock

See also: wallclock

English

A wall clock

Noun

wall clock (plural wall clocks)

1. A clock mounted on a wall.
2. (computing) The measure of wall time, the actual amount of time taken from the start to the end of an operation.
   • 1996, Roger W. Hockney, The Science of Computer Benchmarking, SIAM, →ISBN, pages 19–20:

     In recent years a consensus has been reached among many scientists in the field that the most relevant measure of run time is actual wall-clock elapsed time.

Derived terms

• wall-clock time

 

Translations

clock mounted on a wall

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掛鐘／挂钟 (zh) (guàzhōng), 壁鐘／壁钟 (bìzhōng)

• Danish: vægur (da) n
• Esperanto: murhorloĝo
• Estonian: seinakell (et)
• Finnish: seinäkello (fi)
• French: horloge murale f
• Georgian: კედლის საათი (ḳedlis saati)
• German: Wanduhr (de) f
• Hebrew: שְׁעוֹן קִיר (he) m (she'on kir)
• Icelandic: veggklukka f
• Japanese: 掛け時計 (ja) (かけどけい, kakedokei)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lü: ᦐᦱᧉᦜᦲᧈᦶᦧᧃ (ṅaa²l̇ii¹ẋwaen)
• Macedonian: ѕиден часовник m (dziden časovnik)
• Mongolian: ханын цаг (xanyn cag)
• Portuguese: relógio de parede m
• Russian: насте́нные часы́ (ru) m pl (nasténnyje časý)
• Spanish: reloj de pared m
• Swedish: väggklocka (sv) c
• Ukrainian: насті́нний годи́нник m (nastínnyj hodýnnyk)
• Vietnamese: đồng hồ treo tường