(under subclass 113) Subject matter including means generating a periodic or periodically varying electric signal whose period represents a unit interval of time.
(1) Note. This subclass includes, for example, systems in which the oscillation of fixed frequency oscillators are counted during the interval being measured.
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139+, and 155+, for timepiece time bases, per se.
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324, Electricity: Measuring and Testing,
79, for apparatus which compare the frequency or period of one signal with that of another signal. 331, Oscillators, for oscillators in general; and especially