单词 | horometry |
释义 | horometry|hɒˈrɒmɪtrɪ| [f. Gr. ὥρα time, hour + -metry, Gr. -µετρία measurement.] The measurement of time; also, ‘the determination of the exact error of a timepiece by observation’.
1570Dee Math. Pref. d ij, Horometrie, is an Arte Mathematicall, which demonstrateth, how..the precise vsuall denomination of time, may be knowen..Some parte of this Arte..may be termed Dialling. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xviii. 260 It is I confesse no easie wonder how the horometry of Antiquity discovered not this Artifice. 1798J. Gilchrist in Asiat. Res. V. 81 Account of the Hindustanee Horometry. 1819H. Busk Vestriad iv. 851 Pleas'd her horometries and signs foretell Fortunes to those. |

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