Resembling a clock in operation, precision, or regularity; mechanical and perfectly predictable.
Compound adjective of 'clock' and '-like' (Old English 'lic' meaning similar), creating a word meaning resembling or having the qualities of a clock.
In physics, the term 'clocklike' describes deterministic systems that seem to follow mathematical rules perfectly—but quantum mechanics showed us that at subatomic levels, nothing is truly clocklike; reality is fundamentally probabilistic and weird.
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