wall clock
noun1
A clock mounted on a wall.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The measure of wall time, the actual amount of time taken from the start to the end of an operation.
- In recent years a consensus has been reached among many scientists in the field that the most relevant measure of run time is actual wall-clock elapsed time.1996, Roger W. Hockney, The Science of Computer Benchmarking, SIAM, →ISBN, pages 19–20:
- Derived terms
- wall-clock time