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• chronometre (nonstandard)

語源

From chrono- +‎ -meter, possibly after the model of earlier French chronomètre (“metronome”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + μέτρον (métron, “meter, measuring device”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kɹəˈnɒm.ə.tə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /krə(ʊ)ˈnɒmɪtər/
• (General Australian) IPA: /kɹəˈnɔm.ə.tə(ɹ)/
• ハイフネーション: chro‧nom‧e‧ter

名詞

chronometer (plural chronometers)

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

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

   • 1825, “Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce”, in Royal Society of Arts, Great Britain:

     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. […]

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “chapter 4”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1878 March 30, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic. Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30, 1878, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood and Company […], published 1878, →OCLC, page 1:

     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.

同意語

• timepiece (some uses)
• time standard

下位語

• clock, timepiece (some uses), watch, pocket watch; stopwatch, chronograph; chronoscope; clepsydra; horologium, horologe (archaic)

等位語

派生語

参考

参照

• “chronometer”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Wolfgang Köberer, "On the First Use of the Term 'Chronometer'", The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 106, No. 2, 2016, pp. 203–06

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