a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of or pertaining to chronometry; relating to the measurement of time. Chronometric (or chronometrical) Governor: an improved form of governor for regulating the velocity of an engine.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), I. II. xviii. 431. To obtain a Chronometric Scale.
1838. in Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., I. 54. The chronometric survey of Massachusetts.
1875. Poste, Gaius, I. (ed. 2), 101. The imperfection of chronometric instruments.
1881. C. W. Siemens, in Nature, No. 626. 622. Another invention … the Chronometric Governor.
