clock speed

English

Noun

clockspeed(countableanduncountable,pluralclock speeds)

1. (computing,computerhardware)Therate,measuredinhertz,at which aprocessorperformsitsfundamentaloperations.

   Synonym:(sometimes regarded as more correct)clock rate

Related terms

• overclock

Translations

rate at which a processor performs

• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Đồng hồ tần suất／Đồng hồ tần suất(si⁴zung¹pan⁴leot^6-2)

  Mandarin:Đồng hồ tần suất／Đồng hồ tần suất(shízhōng pínlǜ),Khi mạch／Khi mạch(shímài),Khi mạch tốc độ／Khi mạch tốc độ(shímài sùdù)

• Esperanto:taktofrekvenco
• Finnish:kellotaajuus(fi)
• French:fréquence d’horlogef,fréquence de base de tempsf,fréquence de basef,fréquence de synchronisationf,vitesse d’horlogef
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:klokkefrekvensm

  Nynorsk:klokkefrekvensm

• Russian:тактовый сигнал(taktovyj signal),синхросигнал(ru)(sinxrosignal)

Further reading

• clock speedon Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “clock speed”,inLexico,Dictionary;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.