chronometrical

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Sometimes I wonder if an hour like that is real time; or is it, instead, a kind of chronometrical fairy, having no real existence on the dial, but only in essence.

From Friendship Village by Gale, Zona

At the age of 25 he employed his whole time in chronometrical improvements.

From Curious Epitaphs by Various

To turn the left cheek if the right be smitten, is chronometrical; hence, no average son of man ever did such a thing.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

On leaving Ascension, we sailed for Bahia, on the coast of Brazil, in order to complete the chronometrical measurement of the world.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles

We took their direction with the compass, and some ran north-east, others east-north-east, though the general movement of the ocean, indicated by comparing the reckoning with the chronometrical longitude, continued to be south-east.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina