Chronometry
[krə-NOM-ih-tree]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Greek, 19th century
1.
The science of accurate time measurement.
Examples of Chronometry in a sentence
"Charles, an expert in chronometry, has set all the clocks in his house to the exact atomic time."
"The advent of electricity was a gift to chronometry, as it allowed scientists to make even more precise measurements of time."
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