0 past simple and past participle of clock
1 to take a particular time exactly to do or complete something:
2 to show or reach a particular speed or distance on a measuring device:
3 to hit someone, especially on the head or face:
The simplest approach is to limit attention to synchronous clocked systems with a discrete representation of time.
Stopwatch in hand, he clocked fourteen successive bouts of intercourse at a rate of five seconds per act, with mere five-second intervals between acts.
But the retributive principle we are imagining is not concerned with what is clocked up on the sentencing aggregate.
The organisation that had sold me the car denied all knowledge of the circumstances in which it had been clocked.
The trench was in the factory, between the gate where she clocked in and the shed where she had to work.
The case dragged on and had many worrying elements, which clocked up enormous and needless expense to taxpayers.
Last year they clocked up about £80 million of surplus, devalued in their pockets subsequently.
In 1978–79 it carried nearly 16 million passengers and clocked up 36,000 million revenue passenger kilometres.
