Word Meanings - CHRONOGRAPHIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a chronograph.

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• CHRONOGRAPHY
  A description or record of past time; history. Bp. Hall.
• CHRONOGRAPHER
  One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CHRONOGRAPH
  1. An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity. 2. Same as Chronogram, 1. 3. A chronoscope.
• CHRONOGRAPHIC
  Of or pertaining to a chronograph.
• ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
  An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
• PHOTOCHRONOGRAPH
  1. An instrument for recording minute intervals of time. The record is made by the power of a magnetic field, due to an electric signaling current, to turn the plane of polarization of light. A flash, coinciding in time and duration with the
• ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPHIC
  Belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it.
• PHOTOCHRONOGRAPHY
  Art of recording or measuring intervals of time by the photochronograph. -- Pho`to*chron`o*graph"ic , -graph"ic*al , a. -- -graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
• AUTOCHRONOGRAPH
  An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time. Knight.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach