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 K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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 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
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 Thomas Mitchell
I present consolation to the earnest man, who, among all his human frailties, is still agonizingly conscious of the beauty of chronometrical excellence.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
