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Watch :: Watch (v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring..

#NAME? :: -meter () A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer..

Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc..

Pantochronometer :: Pantochronometer (n.) An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial..

Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.

Timepiece :: Timepiece (n.) A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer..

Gimbals :: Gimbals (n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline 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 is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first..

Chronometrical :: Chronometrical (a.) Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) A metronome.

Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () 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..

Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece..

Correction :: Correction (n.) An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction..

Microchronometer :: Microchronometer (n.) A chronoscope.

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