Chronometer
[krə'nɒmɪtə] or [krə'nɑmɪtɚ]
Definition
(n.) An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.
(n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc.
(n.) A metronome.
Typed by Levi
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Time-keeper, time-piece.
Checker: Millicent
Definition
n. an instrument for measuring time: a watch.—adjs. Chronomet′ric -al.—n. Chronom′etry the art of measuring time by means of instruments: measurement of time.
Checked by Edmond
Examples
- Here is thy chronometer. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A chronometer-watch--a beetle--her soul fainted with utter ennui, from the thought. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The same system was followed with equal success in producing the first-class pocket-chronometer for the nicest work to which chronometers can be put. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He was more intricate than a chronometer-watch. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The same system was followed with equal success in producing the first-class pocket-chronometer for the nicest work to which chronometers can be put. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Chronometers were invented, distinguished from watches and clocks, by means by which the fluctuation of the parts caused by the variations in temperature are obviated or compensated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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