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horological

horological adjective: synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology.

Adjective

horological (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology.
    • [E]ach of the transcendentalists went his own way [...] driven at last to some wayward retreat of his own - a library in a mossy house in Concard, a pitched tent along the Merrimack River, or even at sea , on the whale's road , where the white foam sprays and the horological soul dreams of its...1952, The American Temper, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 203
    Synonyms:
    chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology

Synonyms of horological

Origin of horological

From horologic + -al. Equivalent to horo- + logical or horology + -ical.

Words formed from horological

Questions about horological

What does horological mean?
Horological means synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology.
What part of speech is horological?
Horological is an adjective.

Words near horological in the dictionary

  1. horologer
  2. horologers
  3. horologes
  4. horologia
  5. horologic
  6. horological
  7. horologically
  8. horologies
  9. horologiographer
  10. horologiographers
  11. horologiographic

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