Assertion: stopwatch | /r/CapableOf | chop the second
Facets:
value: into smaller and smaller intervals
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The stopwatch took these developments and made time itself an abstraction as it chopped the second into smaller and smaller intervals until the second is now defined as 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation of a cesium atom – a long way from Galileo's heartbeat.