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chronometrical, a.|krɒnəʊˈmɛtrɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
= prec.
1838in Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. I. 51 Sextant constructed for the chronometrical survey of Massachusetts. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. i. (1879) 1 To carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the world. 1864H. Spencer Illustr. Univ. Prog. 142 Our chronometrical measurements of astronomical periods.
Hence chronoˈmetrically adv.
1863Reade Hard Cash I. 225 They would find the hot fit and the cold return chronometrically, at intervals as regular as the tide's ebb and flow. |