chronometer

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The company’s Marine Chronometer Manufacture features a new in-house movement, the UN-118 Caliber, with an anchor escapement made of a material dubbed DIAMonSIL, a composite of silicon and synthetic diamond.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2012

Not having a Chronometer to ascertain his longitude for himself, he adopted that assigned by the tracing furnished from the Surveyor-General's Office.

From Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland by Byerley, Frederick, J.

Chronometer, kron-om′e-tėr, n. an instrument for measuring time: a watch.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Report to the Visitors states that 'The only change of Buildings which I contemplate as at present required is the erection of a fire-proof Chronometer Room.

From Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy by Airy, George Biddell

The teeth of the escapement-wheel A come alternately against the outer surface of the pallet K and the inner surface of the pallet H. 3, Chronometer escapement.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various