chronometer

How To Use chronometer In A Sentence

• The instruments provided for the journey consisted of two barometers, two thermometers, two compasses, a sextant, two chronometers, an artificial horizon, and an altazimuth, to throw out the height of distant and inaccessible objects. Five Weeks in a Balloon
• All the while, though, they knew exactly where they stood in history: they were men of science, from Victorian England; they had set their chronometers at Greenwich, that towering hill.
• 'I looked up at the glowing blue numbers on the dive chronometer. VITALS
• The chronometer, which is merely the least imperfect time-piece man has devised, makes possible the surest and easiest method by far of ascertaining longitude. A CLASSIC OF THE SEA
• She gave the beggars five fathoms of calico for the big mainsail, two sticks of tobacco for the chronometer, and a sheath-knife worth elevenpence ha'penny for a hundred fathoms of brand new five-inch manila. Chapter 18
• One was its glass house-the vacuum chamber that shielded the chronometer from troubling changes of atmospheric pressure and humidity.
• Here Maury's chronometrical sea science intimates the degree to which the chronometer had come, in the Victorian age, to embody nothing less than rationality itself.
• 'I looked up at the glowing blue numbers on the dive chronometer. VITALS
• Not by accident, he used Harrison's chronometer and lunar distances to calculate longitudes accurately.
• Cook's first expedition in 1767 was to observe the transit of the planet Venus, and it was during his voyages - with the development of an accurate chronometer - that the measurement of longitude became an exact science.