wall clock

See also: wallclock

English

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) Czech: nástěnné hodiny f pl 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: 벽시계(壁時計) (byeoksigye) 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 Turkish: duvar saati (tr) Ukrainian: насті́нний годи́нник m (nastínnyj hodýnnyk) Vietnamese: đồng hồ treo tường