chronometrical

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On leaving Ascension, we sailed for Bahia, on the coast of Brazil, in order to complete the chronometrical measurement of the world.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles

To give all that thou hast to the poor, this too is chronometrical; hence no average son of man ever did such a thing.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

I myself possess a clock that for complicated unconventionality and light-hearted independence, could, I should think, give points to anything yet discovered in the chronometrical line.

From Clocks by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

It was thus when the discovery of the different expansibilities of metals by heat, gave us the means of correcting our chronometrical measurements of astronomical periods.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert

But it is not, and can not be so; nor will he who regards this chronometrical conceit aright, ever more be conscious of that horrible idea.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman