Chronometer

Quick meaning: Chronometer is a noun meaning A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.

Meaning

A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.

Example Sentences

A wristwatch costs $20; a chronometer costs $20,000.

The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since [Isaac] Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use.

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 the keeping of a ship's reckoning, or the prosecuting of a ship's discoveries.

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 balance, coming in contact with one or two studs, is sufficient for that purpose. […]

Word Forms

• chronometers
• chronometre

Synonyms for chronometer

Depending on context, synonyms include timepiece.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clock, chronometre, chronoscope, microchronometer, chronograph, chronography.

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