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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of chronometry.
  • Pertaining to the chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a chronometer or to chronometry.

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Examples

  • Noise serves as a chronometric marker and carrier.

    Noise is... EAGEAGEAG 2010

  • Noise serves as a chronometric marker and carrier.

    Archive 2010-05-01 EAGEAGEAG 2010

  • The chronometric particles must be leaking from the diagnostic unit, because s/he was hallucinating again.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • But the diagnostic unit could barely detect the chronometric particles.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • The diagnostic unit designated them as chronometric particles.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • One Starfleet deep-space-exploration ship, the Equulus, had harvested chronometric particles from a temporal vortex nearly seventy years ago.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • Since the chronometric particles had affected hir only at close proximity, it should be safe.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • It only took a simple computer query to get citations for chronometric particles.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • In addition, Nog said, to having been subjected to an intense burst of chronometric particles, which suggested it had traveled along a temporal slingshot trajectory.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • But Sisko was betting that at the appropriate time, even the brief cascade of chronometric particles the emitter produced would destroy the worm hole-precursor field that Leej Terrell had created with the Red Orb in her secret lab deep within DS9.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

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