chronometer

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Alternative forms

• chronometre (nonstandard)

Etymology

From chrono- +‎ -meter, possibly after the model of earlier French chronomètre (“metronome”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + μέτρον (métron, “meter, measuring device”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈnɒm.ə.tə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /krə(ʊ)ˈnɒmɪtər/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈnɔm.ə.tə(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: chro‧nom‧e‧ter

Noun

chronometer (plural chronometers)

1. A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.

   A wristwatch costs $20; a chronometer costs $20,000.

   • 1825, “Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce”, in Royal Society of Arts, Great Britain:

     The balances of all moveable time-keepers, the chronometer excepted, are prevented from vibrating beyond the proper arc by what is called bankings. The inferior escapements are very easily banked; a pin fixed in the balance, coming in contact with one or two studs, is sufficient for that purpose. […]

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “chapter 4”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chronometers, barometers, telescopes, compasses, charts, maps, sextants, quadrants, and specimens of every kind of instrument used in the working of a ship's course, or the keeping of a ship's reckoning, or the prosecuting of a ship's discoveries.

   • 1878 March 30, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic. Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30, 1878, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood and Company […], published 1878, →OCLC, page 1:

     The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since [Isaac] Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use.

Synonyms

• timepiece (some uses)
• time standard

Hyponyms

• clock, timepiece (some uses), watch, pocket watch; stopwatch, chronograph; chronoscope; clepsydra; horologium, horologe (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• hourglass
• sundial
• water clock

Derived terms

• biochronometer
• cosmochronometer
• geochronometer
• marine chronometer
• microchronometer
• micronometer
• pantochronometer

Translations

device for measuring time, particularly time of day

Armenian: ժամանակաչափ (hy) (žamanakačʻapʻ) Belarusian: храно́метр m (xranómjetr), храно́мэтр m (xranómetr), храно́мэтар m (xranómetar) Bulgarian: часовник (bg) m (časovnik), хронометър m (hronometǎr) Catalan: cronòmetre (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 時計 / 时计 (zh) (shíjì), 計時器 / 计时器 (zh) (jìshíqì) Czech: chronometr m Dutch: chronometer (nl) m Esperanto: kronometro Finnish: kronometri (fi), kello (fi) French: chronomètre (fr) m, chronoscope (fr) m Galician: cronómetro m German: Chronometer (de) m, Uhr (de) f Greek: Ancient: ὡρολόγιον n (hōrológion) (Koine), ὠράριθμον n (ōrárithmon) Hungarian: időmérő (hu), óra (hu) Irish: cronaiméadar m Italian: cronometro (it) m Japanese: クロノメーター (kuronomētā) Korean: 크로노미터 (ko) (keuronomiteo) Latin: horologium (la) n Maori: matawā Persian: کرنومتر (koronometr), گاه‌سنج (gâh-sanj) Polish: chronometr (pl) m, czasomierz (pl) m Portuguese: cronómetro (pt) m (Portugal), cronômetro (pt) m (Brazil), cronoscópio (pt) m Russian: хроно́метр (ru) m (xronómetr), хроноско́п (ru) m (xronoskóp) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кро̏нометар m Roman: krȍnometar (sh) m Slovene: chronometer m Spanish: cronómetro (es) m Tagalog: tionsukat Turkish: saat (tr) Ukrainian: хроно́метр m (xronómetr)

See also

• chronometry
• horologer
• horologist
• horology

References

• “chronometer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Wolfgang Köberer, "On the First Use of the Term 'Chronometer'", The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 106, No. 2, 2016, pp. 203–06

Anagrams

• chronometre

Dutch

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chronometer

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Etymology

From French chronomètre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxroː.noː.meː.tər/

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• Hyphenation: chro‧no‧me‧ter

Noun

chronometer m (plural chronometers, no diminutive)

1. chronometer