Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An optical instrument for the precise measurement of very small time intervals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for measuring extremely short intervals of time. Specifically
- noun An instrument for measuring the velocity of projectiles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
optical instrument used tomeasure very smalltime intervals withprecision
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an instrument for accurate measurements of small intervals of time
Etymologies
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Examples
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"He'd used a device he called a chronoscope to search the history of Earth.
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The story was about a machine called the chronoscope, which had the power to view the past anywhere in the world, and the efforts of three scientists to wrest the device from strict research limits set by the government.
Politics Daily 2010
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Consequently, logically, his invention had to be referred to as a chronoscope if the exact name was to be reliable (from Greek skopein = to see, in contrast to Greek graphein = to write).
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"You said you didn't tab me on the chronoscope, Araman."
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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I had envisioned a chronoscope used for research purposes.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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Uniformly, as I have shown you, they did not make use of the chronoscope.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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Now what do you suppose would happen if we let news of a home chronoscope get out?
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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If the chronoscope becomes the terror of a few politicians, it's a price that must be paid.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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The original invention of the chronoscope was by Sterbinski-you see, I know that much - and it was well publicized.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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You saw the way my wife reacted to the news of a chronoscope in the basement.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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Fechner’s ideas would also quickly be materialized in the newly appearing sensing machines of his time — instruments with strange sounding names like kymographion, tachistoscope, or chronoscope, which measured or graphically represented things like blood pressure, the speed of vision, or response time.
The Two-Century Quest to Quantify Our Senses The MIT Press Reader 2023
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