单词 | chronograph |
释义 | chronographn.ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > chronogram chron-anagram1613 chronogram1623 eteosticha1637 chronograph1662 chronostichon1859 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 103 D. Streithagen Cannon of Hemsberg, in his Germane Flourish, hath writ down a Chronograph, or Verse of the time of this Earthly trembling. 1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. 2. An instrument for recording time with extreme exactness; also, a watch or clock to which various mechanical devices are attached for the same purpose. It is used in astronomical and other observations, in the timing of races, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > timer or chronograph stop-watch1740 time marker1835 time recorder1836 hourglass1852 time clock1857 time lock1858 egg-glass1867 chronograph1868 egg-timer1869 timer1869 gunner's pendulum1876 time switch1884 chess-clock1905 phototimer1942 pinger1950 shot clock1967 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. 271 The transits at station A are recorded on the chronograph at stations A and B. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 51 The term Chronograph is now generally applied to those watches that have a centre seconds hand..which may be started, stopped, and caused to fly back to zero by pressing either the pendant or a knob at the side of it. 1889 Callendar Cursive Shorthand Introd. An electric chronograph capable of recording automatically to the hundredth part of a second the time taken to form any portion of any stroke. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1662 |
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