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Of or pertaining to a chronograph.

A description or record of past time; history. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

One of a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of the motion. --Chron`o*pho*tog"ra*phy, n.

The art of writing in letters of gold.

lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing…

One who exhibits moving pictures or who takes chronophotographs by the cinematograph. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic (#), a. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

An integrating anemometer.

A contrivance for clapping in theaters. [Obs.]

A description of climates.

Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.

One who describes or writes about comets.

A description of, or a treatise concerning, comets.

A machine for adding numbers and making a printed record of the sum.

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time.

A placing over against; opposite position. [Obs.] F. Potter.

A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully. [Colloq. or Dial.] -- Con*trap"tious (#), a.

Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.

One skilled in counterpoint. L. Mason.

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing.

s and the earth. The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. Robynson (More's Utopia).