| 单词 | time reckoning |
| 释义 | > as lemmastime reckoning time reckoning n. and adj. ΚΠ 1833 Penny Mag. 2 Mar. 83/2 Instead of geography, osteology, metallurgy, chronology, architecture, they [sc. the Germans] can say, earth-description, bone-knowledge, smelting-art, time-reckoning, building-art. 1842 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 597/1 The Christian Era..was not adopted as a mode of time-reckoning immediately after the commencement of Christianity. 1868 Once a Week 2 Sept. 337/2 Would not the acquisition of this time-reckoning instinct be worth trying for? 1920 A. S. Eddington Space, Time & Gravitation ii. 31 Observers with different motions use different space- and time-reckoning. 1988 T. Ferris Coming of Age in Milky Way (1989) i. i. 22 Stonehenge is one of thousands of old time-reckoning machines the moving parts of which were all in the sky. < as lemmas |
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