clocklike

1 As a loose approximation, aging is clocklike because there’s a progressiveness to it.

2 The woodblock pulse is sometimes taken up by clanging cowbell, slashed chords, or the ominous, clocklike ticking of bowsticks against strings.

3 While each change may be novel, major life transitions happen with clocklike regularity.

4 Time cells fire at successive moments but do not track time in a simple clocklike fashion.

5 As its inflating interior forms a new universe, its energy incrementally ticks down in clocklike fashion each time the expanding circle winds around the cylinder’s circumference and overlaps itself.

6 The radio emissions themselves, Dr. Chatterjee said, resemble the blasts from pulsars — the spinning neutron stars that emit clocklike pulses of radiation and whose discovery in 1968 did indeed elicit speculation about little green men.

1 准确

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2 准时

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3 准时的

punctual

4 准确的

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