chronometrical
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The application of delicate optical and chronometrical instruments has rendered the measurement of this horizontal power susceptible of a degree of accuracy far surpassing that attained in any other magnetic determinations.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
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 Zona Gale
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 Herman Melville
To give all that thou hast to the poor, this too is chronometrical; hence no average son of man ever did such a thing.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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 Herbert Spencer
