chronometry
/krəˈnɒmɪtri
/noun [mass noun]
The science of accurate time measurement.The reversible timelessness of the imagination distinguishes it from the irreversible chronometry of memory and bends it toward the creation of art....
- The zodiac was involved in chronometry, astronomy, and divination.
- One reading of ‘Chronometricals and Horologicals’ sees the tale as a parable of nineteenth-century theosophical chronometry.
Derivatives
chronometric
/ adjective ...- This variable was subsequently transformed into a speed measure (scaled in milliseconds) in order to make it comparable to the other chronometric variables of the current investigation.
- By far, the most frequent chronometric age determinations link southeastern cave art with the Mississippian period.
- The usual reason given for the use of a chronometric system is that we don't have enough biological activity or geochemical change to find useful markers.
chronometrical
- This fact was not lost on the English mechanical genius John Harrison, who first pushed chronometrical precision into this ethereal realm.
- As for the correct time, the U.S. Naval Observatory's Atomic Clock is the basis for what's probably the Web's most formidable chronometrical site.
- With chronometrical precision Switzerland does away with all wolves, and is charged with the killing of at least 25 wolf cubs, which amounts to a generalised licence to kill.
chronometrically
/ adverb ...- Such beds can be used to establish reliable, regional stratigraphic sequences with a relative chronology, as with fossils, but also chronometrically calibrated sequences, because their age can be determined by a variety of methods.
- The base of the Mesoproterozoic is defined chronometrically, in terms of years, rather than by the appearance or disappearance of some organism.
- This numismatic and thus chronometrically valid distinction, however, could be useful regardless of whether the two brothers used the same or different passes.