chronometricalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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chronometrical (not comparable)

1. Synonym of chronometric.
   • 1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World‎^[1]:

     The object of the expedition was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830--to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific--and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World.

   • 1908, Zona Gale, Friendship Village‎^[2]:

     Sometimes I wonder if an hour like that is real time; or is it, instead, a kind of chronometrical fairy, having no real existence on the dial, but only in essence.

   • 1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 1841, James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents‎^[4]:

     Observations were made during portions of three lunations of the transit of the moon's bright limb and of such tabulated stars as differed but little in right ascension and declination from the moon, in order to obtain additional data to those furnished by chronometrical comparisons with the meridian of Boston for computing the longitude of this meridian line.

   • 1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia‎^[5], volume 2:

     The situations of the following places, which were either fixed by us or adapted from other authorities, served as the basis of the chronometrical determination of the longitudes of the intermediate parts.

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