chronometer
Example Sentences
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By the story’s chronometer, a mere eight months had passed.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025
Plenty of interactive exhibits brings the voyage to life, including hands-on experimentation with a chronometer and Fresnel lens, outtakes from the duo’s journal, and short films.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2022
But such was Worsley's genius with a sextant and a chronometer - maritime navigation instruments - there's high confidence in his calculated coordinates.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2022
The magnetic compass, gunpowder, the printing press, the chronometer, the cotton gin, the steam engine and the water wheel are among the many examples.
From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2020
They watched the hands on the chronometer creep toward seven o’clock, and then from far below came a distant blast of the factory whistle.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing chronometer
It's About Time: Chron and Temp
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: chron
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