chronometer
A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.
Noun
- A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.
- A wristwatch costs $20; a chronometer costs $20,000.
- The balances of all moveable time-keepers, the chronometer excepted, are prevented from vibrating beyond the proper arc by what is called bankings. The inferior escapements are very easily banked; a pin fixed in the...
- The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chronometers, barometers, telescopes, compasses, charts, maps, sextants, quadrants, and specimens of every kind of instrument used in the working of a ship's course, or...
Origin
From chrono- + -meter, possibly after the model of earlier French chronomètre (“metronome”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + μέτρον (métron, “meter, measuring device”).
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clock timepiece watch pocket watch stopwatch chronograph chronoscope clepsydra horologium horologe
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Derived
biochronometer cosmochronometer geochronometer marine chronometer microchronometer micronometer pantochronometer