Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The scientific measurement of time.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art or process of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.
Wiktionary
- n. The science of the measurement of time
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.
Examples
“Instances are the use of invar in the design of physical instruments, and especially in geodesy where Guillaume's discovery has completely transformed the methods of measuring base lines; nickel steel has also supplanted platinum in the manufacture of incandescent lamps and on the basis of the current price of platinum this represents an annual saving of twenty million francs; lastly chronometry is indebted to Guillaume's discoveries and investigations for a new refinement - the use of the new alloys enables watches to be adjusted more accurately and at less cost than formerly.”
“While jeweled bearings had been used in watches to improve chronometry since the early 18th century, the mechanics of the Huggeford timepiece dated from the 1670s.”
“In the watch, all the problems of marine chronometry were essentially resolved.”
“Move eastwards and Dec 25 is postponed by the stubborn chronometry of the Julian calendar to Jan 6 or 7.”
“On the law of inertia; the principle of chronometry; and the principle of absolute clinural rest, and of absolute rotation.”
“Whether or not time was conceptualized in any culture that survives only through ruins and artifacts, the peoples themselves were highly skilled in chronometry.”
“There were two things wrong: geometry, chronometry.”
“So I had to stay here and hope the riveters would start work before anyone came down here to look at the minefield but they hadn't started work yet and that was why I was getting the shakes: the chronometry was wrong.”
“Numerous systems of chronometry create confusion across Alastor Cluster and the Gaean Reach, despite attempts at reform.”
“In any given locality, at least three systems of reckoning are in daily use: scientific chronometry, based upon the orbital frequency of the K-state hydrogen electron; astronomic time - 'Gaean Standard Time' - which provides synchronism across the human universe; and local time.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chronometry’.
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FYS100
Word discovery & discussion by CSUMB first-year students, to help with required texts.
trippy, bantam, patience, Roseto, Froth, legit, patronage, quarries, compatriot, intact, baby boomer, virtuosos and 35 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
Tweets
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allyjamers I could definitely see this word being used by Gladwell in the Outliers. It reminds me of a timeline that needs to be put in chronological order (like dinosaurs). Oct 5, 2011