clobber vt.
To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end
of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare mung, scribble,
trash, and smash the stack.
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clock
1. n 1. [techspeak] The master oscillator that steps a CPU or
other digital circuit through its paces. This has nothing to do
with the time of day, although the software counter that keeps
track of the latter may be derived from the former. 2. vt. To run
a CPU or other digital circuit at a particular rate. "If you
clock it at 100MHz, it gets warm.". See overclock. 3. vt. To force a digital circuit
from one state to the next by applying a single clock pulse. "The
data must be stable 10ns before you clock the latch."
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clocks n.
Processor logic cycles, so called because each generally
corresponds to one clock pulse in the processor's timing. The
relative execution times of instructions on a machine are usually
discussed in clocks rather than absolute fractions of a second;
one good reason for this is that clock speeds for various models
of the machine may increase as technology improves, and it is
usually the relative times one is interested in when discussing
the instruction set. Compare cycle,
jiffy.