MEANING
To run a clocked electronic component at a frequency below its specified or usual operating frequency.
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Words that belong together
- underclock a processor
- an underclocked system
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They underclocked the processor to keep the damaged cooling system within its limits.
The underclocked terminal completed the calculation more slowly.
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Word forms
- Base
- underclock
- Past tense
- underclocked
- Past participle
- underclocked
- Present participle
- underclocking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- underclock
- Present continuous
- am/is/are underclocking
- Present perfect
- have/has underclocked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been underclocking
- Past
- underclocked
- Past continuous
- was/were underclocking
- Past perfect
- had underclocked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been underclocking
- Future
- will underclock
- Future continuous
- will be underclocking
- Future perfect
- will have underclocked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been underclocking
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: underclock; underclocks; underclocked; underclocked; underclocking Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: underclocks.
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