Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

marine chronometer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English

Syllables: marine chronome-ter
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A timepiece used as a portable time standard at sea so as to enable the determining of longitude by means of celestial navigation.

Inflected Forms

marine chronometers (plural)

Synonyms

longitude clock

Questions

What does marine chronometer mean?: A timepiece used as a portable time standard at sea so as to enable the determining of longitude by means of celestial navigation.

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