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Definition of chronometry in English: chronometrynoun krəˈnɒmɪtrikrəˈnɑmətri mass nounThe science of accurate time measurement. 测时学；精密计时法 Example sentencesExamples - One reading of ‘Chronometricals and Horologicals’ sees the tale as a parable of nineteenth-century theosophical chronometry.
- Alan Ayckbourn, author of some 60 mostly memorable plays, has also reinvented space and time, geometry and chronometry.
- The zodiac was involved in chronometry, astronomy, and divination.
- Jencks - a foremost expert on postmodern architecture and a committed postmodernist - has long been known for his fascination with historical chronometry of a rather morbid kind.
- The reversible timelessness of the imagination distinguishes it from the irreversible chronometry of memory and bends it toward the creation of art.
Derivativesadjective krɒnəˈmɛtrɪkˌkrɑnəˈmɛtrɪk The usual reason given for the use of a chronometric system is that we don't have enough biological activity or geochemical change to find useful markers. Example sentencesExamples - This variable was subsequently transformed into a speed measure (scaled in milliseconds) in order to make it comparable to the other chronometric variables of the current investigation.
- Archaeology possesses the technical apparatus for the investigation of deep time through excavation and chronometric dating.
- On the one hand there is relative time - the ordering of rock strata as recognised in a cliff section or in a deep sea core - and on the other there is absolute or chronometric time.
- By far, the most frequent chronometric age determinations link southeastern cave art with the Mississippian period.
adjective krɒnəˈmɛtrɪk(ə)l As for the correct time, the U.S. Naval Observatory's Atomic Clock is the basis for what's probably the Web's most formidable chronometrical site. Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- Much of my work is based on chronometrical studies; however, I have also been involved in neuroimaging research, and in studies of acquired brain damage.
- With chronometrical precision Switzerland does away with all wolves, and is charged with the killing of at least 25 wolf cubs, which amounts to a generalised licence to kill.
- This fact was not lost on the English mechanical genius John Harrison, who first pushed chronometrical precision into this ethereal realm.
adverbkrɒnəˈmɛtrɪk(ə)liˌkrɑnəˈmɛtrək(ə)li The base of the Mesoproterozoic is defined chronometrically, in terms of years, rather than by the appearance or disappearance of some organism. Example sentencesExamples - This numismatic and thus chronometrically valid distinction, however, could be useful regardless of whether the two brothers used the same or different passes.
- Such beds can be used to establish reliable, regional stratigraphic sequences with a relative chronology, as with fossils, but also chronometrically calibrated sequences, because their age can be determined by a variety of methods.
- With them, the ancients could accurately measure the size of the earth, map it, and chronometrically tick off the cyclic passage of the ages.
- The new fossils are from chronometrically controlled stratigraphic sequences and date to about 4.1-4.2 million years ago.
Definition of chronometry in US English: chronometrynounkrəˈnämətrēkrəˈnɑmətri The science of accurate time measurement. 测时学；精密计时法 Example sentencesExamples - The zodiac was involved in chronometry, astronomy, and divination.
- The reversible timelessness of the imagination distinguishes it from the irreversible chronometry of memory and bends it toward the creation of art.
- Jencks - a foremost expert on postmodern architecture and a committed postmodernist - has long been known for his fascination with historical chronometry of a rather morbid kind.
- Alan Ayckbourn, author of some 60 mostly memorable plays, has also reinvented space and time, geometry and chronometry.
- One reading of ‘Chronometricals and Horologicals’ sees the tale as a parable of nineteenth-century theosophical chronometry.
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