chronometrical

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I myself possess a clock that for complicated unconventionality and light-hearted independence, could, I should think, give points to anything yet discovered in the chronometrical line.

From Clocks by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

But it is not, and can not be so; nor will he who regards this chronometrical conceit aright, ever more be conscious of that horrible idea.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

It was thus when the discovery of the different expansibilities of metals by heat, gave us the means of correcting our chronometrical measurements of astronomical periods.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert

The situations of the following places, which were either fixed by us or adapted from other authorities, served as the basis of the chronometrical determination of the longitudes of the intermediate parts.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker

The two Tommies obtained new chronometrical surnames, being known in the party as Tommy Came-first and Tommy Came-last.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas