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A metronome. Box chronometer. See under Box. -- Pocket chronometer, a chronometer in the form of a large watch. -- To rate a chronometer. See Rate, v. t.

A chronoscope.

An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial. Brande & C.

A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.

Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction. Correction line (Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of…

ine freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself…

A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.

To ratify. [Obs.] "To rate the truce." Chapman. To rate a chronometer, to ascertain the exact rate of its gain or loss as compared with true time, so as to make an allowance or computation depended thereon.

A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.

A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.