How to Use chronometer in a Sentence

chronometer

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  • Shul joins Ball’s Explorers Club and the watch in his honor is a chronometer that displays the time in three zones.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Sir Ernest stood by under the canvas with chronometer, pencil, and book.
    — Daniella McCahey, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Back then, a marine chronometer could cost the equivalent of one-third of the price of the entire sea-worthy vessel.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • At Sumter, clocks ticked, chronometer hands whirled, as one slow minute passed, then another.
    — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • And it's all set to run within -3/+5 seconds a day, higher than chronometer standards.
    — Daniel Bentley, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2021
  • So the men would sail with the accessible technology of the era: a radio, a windup chronometer, and a barometer.
    — Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Cellular chronometers may even decide when your time is up.
    — Karen Wright, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2012
  • The magnetic compass, gunpowder, the printing press, the chronometer, the cotton gin, the steam engine and the water wheel are among the many examples.
    — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Inside the dial are three chronometer subdials, each with its own small stainless steel hand.
    — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • To be certified as a master chronometer, a watch must not lose a second in 24 hours and can gain only five seconds in the same period.
    — Daniel Bentley, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The awards were launched in observance of a half-century of the iconic Rolex Oyster chronometer, the world’s first waterproof wristwatch.
    — National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2016
  • Powering the chronometer is Ulysse Nardin’s caliber UN-118 movement.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In Warren’s own telling of the story, his first attempt at an electric chronometer was a crude motor that connected the gears of a clock to the Boston Edison electrical system.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2024
  • With few exceptions, the modern gadget is as impossible to navigate as were the seas before the sextant and the marine chronometer.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2008
  • Mystery Clocks that were introduced in 1912, which presented the hands seemingly floating in midair within the transparent body of the chronometer.
    — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 19 June 2022
  • Marine chronometers were used in the 18th century to aid navigation.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Hlavacek and Druckenmiller finalized the paperwork at 10:25 a.m. Thursday, shaking hands over the chronometer.
    — Kyrie Long, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
  • The escapement’s pallet lever, on the other hand, is unusually crafted in 14-karat gold, a nod to historical chronometers.
    — Elizabeth Doerr, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The timepiece features a unidirectional rotating bezel, a chronometer, a screw-in crown, and a helium-escape valve.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
  • Eighty-four years later, a scientific expedition to the bottom of the Northern Atlantic ocean recovered a chronometer from the bridge of Titanic.
    — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The Clock of the World, an extravagant chronometer telling visitors the exact minute and hour anywhere in the world, stood by the entrance to Tomorrowland, symbolizing the land’s temporal transition.
    — Rachel Withers, Slate Magazine, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The chronometer achieved an unheard of precision of one second per month, allowing the navigator, Harrison’s son, to predict his landfall within a single mile.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The move would result in the Besnaçon Observatory launching a new chronometer certification.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Harrison spent 40 years of his life developing his revolutionary sea clock, called a marine chronometer.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Harrison was self-educated, and is credited with creating the first marine chronometer to calculate longitude when sailors were at sea.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Harrison is the famous inventor of the marine chronometer which enabled accurate navigation at sea.
    — Nicholas Manousos, Bloomberg.com, 21 July 2017
  • His clock, called a chronometer later in the 18th century — basically a proto-pocket watch — improved accuracy through balance and spring combinations and kept time within 0.8 seconds per day.
    — Nick Bullock, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2014
  • Additionally, the Tudor Pelagos will always tell you the date, hour, minute, and second accurately because the chronometer works despite any variants in motion, temperature, or pressure.
    — Popular Science, 20 May 2020
  • The movement is the manufacture caliber MT5400, an automatic chronometer with a non-magnetic silicon hairspring.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Anything that qualified to compete was rated as an official observatory chronometer.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2022

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