English-Dutch translations for atomic clock

• atoomklok
  Deze zal andere instrumenten van hoogstaande technologie aan boord hebben, waaronder de , de nauwkeurigste atoomklok die ooit in de ruimte is gebracht. It will carry other technologically advanced equipment such as the passive hydrogen MASER atomic clock, which will be the most precise atomic clock ever launched into space.

Definition of atomic clock

• An extremely accurate reference clock whose operation is based on an atomic process, typically the frequency of electromagnetic radiation associated with a specified energy-level transition in an element such as cesium

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• atomic nucleus
• subatomic particle
• atomic fountain clock
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