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单词 chronograph
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chronographn.

Brit. /ˈkrɒnəɡrɑːf/, /ˈkrɒnəɡraf/, /ˈkrəʊnəɡrɑːf/, /ˈkrəʊnəɡraf/, U.S. /ˈkrɑnəˌɡræf/, /ˈkroʊnəˌɡræf/
Etymology: < Greek χρονογράϕος recording time, < χρόνος time + γράϕειν to write.
1. = chronogram n. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
attributive.1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 78 The chronograph hand travels round the dial in a minute, which is the time that the fourth wheel takes to make a revolution.1886 York Herald 11 Aug. 2/3 Repeating and Chronograph Watches.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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