free running
Speech parts
1. free running - Noun
2. free running - Adjective
Meaning
free running (uncountable)
The activity of combining parkour with gymnastics to pass obstacles and demonstrate athletic talent, most often in urban environments.
free-running (comparative freer running, superlative freest running)
(of a mechanism) Moving freely and smoothly.
Alternative names
free-running
Related terms
Examples
A free-running multivibrator with a frequency of one-half to one-tenth of the reference frequency would accurately lock to the reference frequency.
The model of a VCO is usually assumed to be linear : where is a free-running frequency of voltage-controlled oscillator and is an oscillator gain.
In this context, free-running sleep means that a person chooses to sleep when sleepy and to awaken spontaneously (specifically without an alarm clock or reference to the time of day).
Vulcan B.2s were eventually fitted with the twin-gyro free-running gyroscopic heading reference system (HRS) Mk.2, based upon the inertial platform of the Blue Steel missile, which had been integrated into the system when the missile had been carried.
Animals, including humans, kept in total darkness for extended periods eventually function with a free-running rhythm.
Cells from many parts of the body appear to have free-running rhythms.