chronometer

Example Sentences

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By the story’s chronometer, a mere eight months had passed.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2025

Plenty of interactive exhibits brings the voyage to life, including hands-on experimentation with a chronometer and Fresnel lens, outtakes from the duo’s journal, and short films.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2022

But such was Worsley's genius with a sextant and a chronometer - maritime navigation instruments - there's high confidence in his calculated coordinates.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2022

The magnetic compass, gunpowder, the printing press, the chronometer, the cotton gin, the steam engine and the water wheel are among the many examples.

From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2020

They watched the hands on the chronometer creep toward seven o’clock, and then from far below came a distant blast of the factory whistle.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong