chronometer — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.

   مرادفات

   timepiecetime standard

   كلمات ذات صلة

   chronometryhorologerhorologisthorology

   مصطلحات أخصّ

   clocktimepiecewatchpocket watchstopwatchchronographchronoscopeclepsydrahorologium

   أمثلة

   A wristwatch costs $20; a chronometer costs $20,000.

   أمثلة إضافية (3)

   The balances of all moveable time-keepers, the chronometer excepted, are prevented from vibrating beyond the proper arc by what is called bankings. The inferior escapements are very easily banked; a pin fixed in the balance, coming in contact with one or two studs, is sufficient for that purpose. […]

   The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chronometers, barometers, telescopes, compasses, charts, maps, sextants, quadrants, and specimens of every kind of instrument used in the working of a ship's course, or the keeping of a ship's reckoning, or the prosecuting of a ship's discoveries.

   The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since [Isaac] Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use.

اسم

1. an accurate clock (especially used in navigation)

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   clock