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  2. Play clock - Wikipedia

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    In amateur American football, teams have 25 seconds from the time the ball is declared ready for play, usually by a whistle blown by the referee. [citation needed] In the NFL, teams have 40 seconds timed from the end of the previous down. A 25 second play clock will be used if there is a: change of possession, a timeout, the two-minute warning,

  3. Clock management - Wikipedia

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    In order to successfully run out the clock by kneeling, there must be less than 40 seconds on the clock if the opponent has two time-outs, 1 minute 20 seconds if the opponent has one time-out, or 2 minutes if the defense has no time-outs remaining, at the snap on a first down (an additional 40 seconds can be run off if the clock keeps running ...

  4. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    The Clock was moved to 150 seconds (2 minutes, 30 seconds) in 2017, then forward to 2 minutes to midnight in 2018, and left unchanged in 2019. [6] It was moved forward to 100 seconds (1 minute, 40 seconds) in 2020, [7] 90 seconds (1 minute, 30 seconds) in 2023, [8] and 89 seconds (1 minute, 29 seconds) in 2025. [9]

  5. Shot clock - Wikipedia

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    The set amount of time for a shot clock in basketball is 24–35 seconds, depending on the league. This clock reveals how much time a team may possess the ball before attempting to score a field goal. It may be colloquially known as the 24-second clock, particularly in the NBA and other leagues where that is the duration of the shot clock. If ...

  6. Running out the clock - Wikipedia

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    The play clock runs for only 20 seconds from the time the ball is whistled into play, compared to 40 seconds from the end of the last play in U.S. college football and the NFL. Two major changes in game timing occur in the last 3 minutes of each half: The clock stops after each play.

  7. Countdown - Wikipedia

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    Seven seconds after launch of STS-121, the countdown clock at LC-39 at the Kennedy Space Center seen counting up, rather than down. In the context of a rocket launch, the "L minus Time" is the physical time before launch, e.g. "L minus 3 minutes and 40 seconds".

  8. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    Time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually of proteins). picosecond: 10 −12 s: One trillionth of a second. nanosecond: 10 −9 s: One billionth of a second. Time for molecules to fluoresce. shake: 10 −8 s: 10 nanoseconds, also a casual term for a short period of time. microsecond: 10 −6 s: One millionth of a second. Symbol is μs ...

  9. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    Metric time is the measure of time intervals using the metric system. The modern SI system defines the second as the base unit of time, and forms multiples and submultiples with metric prefixes such as kiloseconds and milliseconds. Other units of time – minute, hour, and day – are accepted for use with SI, but are not part of it