horometryn.

/hɒˈrɒmɪtri/

Etymology: < Greek ὥρα time, hour n. + -metry comb. form.

The measurement of time; also, ‘the determination of the exact error of a timepiece by observation’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun]

compota1387

annotationa1464

horometry1570

chronometry1837

chrononomy1882

chronoscopy1882

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. dij Horometrie, is an Arte Mathematicall, which demonstrateth, how..the precise vsuall denomination of time, may be knowen..Some part of this Arte..may be termed, Dialling.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xviii. 260 It is I confesse no easie wonder how the horometry of Antiquity discovered not this Artifice.

1798 J. Gilchrist in Asiatick Researches 5 81 Account of the Hindustanee Horometry.

1819 H. Busk Vestriad iv. 851 Pleas'd her horometries and signs foretell Fortunes to those.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	horometry
释义	horometryn. /hɒˈrɒmɪtri/ Etymology: < Greek ὥρα time, hour n. + -metry comb. form. The measurement of time; also, ‘the determination of the exact error of a timepiece by observation’. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] compota1387 annotationa1464 horometry1570 chronometry1837 chrononomy1882 chronoscopy1882 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. dij Horometrie, is an Arte Mathematicall, which demonstrateth, how..the precise vsuall denomination of time, may be knowen..Some part of this Arte..may be termed, Dialling. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xviii. 260 It is I confesse no easie wonder how the horometry of Antiquity discovered not this Artifice. View more context for this quotation 1798 J. Gilchrist in Asiatick Researches 5 81 Account of the Hindustanee Horometry. 1819 H. Busk Vestriad iv. 851 Pleas'd her horometries and signs foretell Fortunes to those. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1570
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