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chronographic, a.|krɒnəʊˈgræfɪk| [f. chronograph + -ic.] 1. Of, or pertaining to, a chronograph.
1867–77G. Chambers Astron. viii. 777 The chronographic method of recording transits. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. No. 534. 275 By..the chronographic method, the apparatus used being called a chronograph, the observer is enabled to confine his attention to the star. 1889Athenæum 4 May 563/3 By comparing the actual writing with the record on the chronographic cylinder. 2. Chronogrammatic. (chronograph 1.) rare.
[1634(title) Chronographica Gratulatio in Felicissimum Adventum Serenissimi Card. Ferdinandi Hispaniarum Infantis (in Hilton).] 1882J. Hilton Chronogr. I. 449 The book is chronographic throughout..There are 1081 chronograms. Ibid. Pref. 11 They were occasionally constrained, by chronographic necessity, to use inelegant Latin. |