chronometer

How To Use chronometer In A Sentence

• The instruments provided for the journey consisted of two barometers, two thermometers, two compasses, a sextant, two chronometers, an artificial horizon, and an altazimuth, to throw out the height of distant and inaccessible objects. Five Weeks in a Balloon
• An expensive chronometer would help here, but one or more well-made hourglasses will also do just fine.
• Accuracy has a conceptual beauty which was once visible in the look of chronometers and theodolites.
• A chronometer is strapped to their wrist, but subjects reported their free-fall lasted longer than the chronometer recorded. Ann Reynolds: The End of Time
• McKinnon gathered up sextant and chronometer and accompanied them up to the bridge. SAN ANDREAS
• Here Maury's chronometrical sea science intimates the degree to which the chronometer had come, in the Victorian age, to embody nothing less than rationality itself.
• Chronometer is a designation given to a watch that has the highest standard of precision.
• In 1990, large space telescope such as Hubble telescope on the history of chronometer.
• His other instruments still worked fine - sextants, reflecting circle, artificial horizon, telescope, chronometer, several compasses and probably a couple of thermometers - and he continued recording latitudes and longitudes.
• On the deckside, only two were on watch -- you and Trent down in the Captain's cabin there keeping an eye on the sextant and chronometer. SAN ANDREAS