chronometrical
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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
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)
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
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
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 Humboldt, Alexander von
