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chronometrical

chronometrical adjective: synonym of chronometric.

Adjective

chronometrical (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of chronometric.
    • 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.1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, volume 2
    • Observations were made during portions of three lunations of the transit of the moon's bright limb and of such tabulated stars as differed but little in right ascension and declination from the moon, in order to obtain additional data to those furnished by chronometrical comparisons with the...1841, James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
    Synonyms:
    chronometric

Examples of chronometrical in a sentence

  • 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.1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects:
  • 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.1908, Zona Gale, Friendship Village:

Synonyms of chronometrical

Origin of chronometrical

From chronometric + -al.

Words formed from chronometrical

Questions about chronometrical

What does chronometrical mean?
Chronometrical means synonym of chronometric.
How do you use chronometrical in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is chronometrical?
Chronometrical is an adjective.

Words near chronometrical in the dictionary

  1. chronometer
  2. chronometers
  3. chronometre
  4. chronometres
  5. chronometric
  6. chronometrical
  7. chronometrically
  8. chronometrics
  9. chronometries
  10. chronometrist
  11. chronometrists

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