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Biological Clock

Definition: Biological Clock

Biological Clock

Noun

1. An innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Usage: Biological Clock

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Is your biological clock digital? (Keiner liebt mich; writing credit: Doris Dörrie)

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Specialty Definition: Biological clock

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A biological clock enables an organism to anticipate periodical changes in their environment. Biological clocks generate biological rhythms on every biological level from gene expression to complex behaviour.

See also: circadian clock

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Biological clock."

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Commercial Usage: Biological Clock

DomainTitle

Books

  • Help Yourself Cope with Your Biological Clock : How to Make The Right Decision about Motherhood (reference)

  • The Biological Clock, Two Views (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Biological Clock

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Health

To reduce the effects of jet lag, some doctors try to manipulate the biological clock with a technique called light therapy. (references)

Others are responsible for processing visual or auditory stimuli, regulating the body's biological clock, or managing the myriad of other jobs that keep the human body functioning. (references)

Sunlight helps the body's internal biological clock reset itself each day. Sleep experts recommend exposure to an hour of morning sunlight for people having problems falling asleep. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Biological Clock

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  biological clock

32

  man biological clock

4

  biological clock womens

2

  biological clock woman

2

  biological clock male

2
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Modern Translations: Biological Clock

Language Translations for "biological clock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

biologische klok. (various references)

   

French

  

horloge biologue. (various references)

   

German

  

biologische uhr. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

äœ"ć†…æ™‚èšˆ . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たいăȘいどけい. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iologicalbay ockclay

   

Swedish

  

biologisk klocka. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Biological Clock

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-c-g-i-i-k-l-l-l-o-o-o"

-5 letters: biological.

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Alternative Orthography: Biological Clock


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 69 6F 6C 6F 67 69 63 61 6C      43 6C 6F 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101001 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000011 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#111 &#108 &#111 &#103 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#67 &#108 &#111 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 006F 006C 006F 0067 0069 0063 0061 006C      0043 006C 006F 0063 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3675817881737569677823778816977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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