单词 | chronographic |
释义 | chronographicadj. 1. Of, or pertaining to, a chronograph. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [adjective] > of or relating to other instruments chronographic1861 chronoscopic1876 1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. ix. 390 The chronographic method of recording transits. 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. 275 By..the chronographic method, the apparatus used being called a chronograph, the observer is enabled to confine his attention to the star. 1889 Athenæum 4 May 563/3 By comparing the actual writing with the record on the chronographic cylinder. 2. Chronogrammatic. (chronograph n. 1) rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [adjective] > of or relating to a chronogram chronogrammatical1660 chronogrammatic1828 chronogrammic1863 chronographic1882 1634 (title) Chronographica Gratulatio in Felicissimum Adventum Serenissimi Card. Ferdinandi Hispaniarum Infantis (in Hilton).] 1882 J. Hilton Chronograms I. 449 The book is chronographic throughout..There are 1081 chronograms. 1882 J. Hilton Chronograms Pref. 11 They were occasionally constrained, by chronographic necessity, to use inelegant Latin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adj.1861 |
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