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Definition: Chronograph |
ChronographNoun1. An accurate timer for recording time. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Chronograph \Chron"o*graph\, noun. [Greek expression time -graph: compare to the French expression chronographe.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Instrument for measuring and recording time intervals. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | An apparatus for electrically recording explosion phenomena with acontinuous time record. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instantaneity | Clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio; watch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch; atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock; chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph; repeater; timekeeper, timepiece; dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra; ghurry. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chronograph |
| English words defined with "chronograph": Chronogram, Chronographic ♦ Electro-chronograph. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chronograph": ballistics tester ♦ CHRONOGRAPH OPERATOR ♦ FIELD ARTILLERY OPERATIONS SPECIALIST. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "chronograph": Chronography. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | World longitude network setup at Manila Note radio gear to receive time ticks Chronograph is drum-like instrument to right. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | E. J. Brown at astro setup checking chronograph Astro party of E. J. Brown. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Chronograph drum without paper Used to record time ticks during longitude observations Astro party of Charles Whitten. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Hamilton Watch Factory. Chronograph. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Chronograph" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Chronograph" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "chronograph": Electro-chronograph. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "chronograph"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الكرونوغراف أداة لقياس الوقت. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хронограф. (various references) | |
Chinese | 测时器. (various references) | |
Czech | chronograf. (various references) | |
Danish | Kronograf (chronograph watch, stop-watch). (various references) | |
Dutch | chronograaf (chronograph watch, clock, stop-watch), boordklok (clock). (various references) | |
French | chronographe (chronograph watch). (various references) | |
German | Chronograf | Chronograph (clock). (various references) | |
Greek | χρονογράφος (chronograph watch, clock, stop-watch). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kronográf. (various references) | |
Italian | cronografo (stopwatch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | クロス商い (chloromycetin, chromatography, chromium, chronicle, chrono, chronobiology, chronometer, chronoscope, clock, clomiphene, closet, crocus, Cro-Magnon, cropped pants, croquet, cross trade, crossing zone, Kronecker, Kronecker delta). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | クロノグラフ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onographchray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cronógrafo de bordo (clock), cronógrafo. (various references) | |
Romanian | cronograf. (various references) | |
Russian | хронограф. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hronograf. (various references) | |
Spanish | cronógrafo (stopwatch). (various references) | |
Swedish | kronograf. (various references) | |
Turkish | zaman ölçeği, kronograf, hız ölçeği. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | máy ghi thời gian. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chronograph": chronographic, chronographies, chronographs, chronography. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "chronograph" (pronounced 'Chron"o*graph'): Accelerograph, Actinograph, Allograph, Anaglyptograph, Anagraph, Anapnograph, Anemograph, Anemometrograph, Antigraph, Apograph, Arcograph, Autochronograph, Barograph, Barometrograph, Barothermograph, Bibliograph, Brontograph, Cardiagraph, Cardiograph, Cardiosphygmograph, Cerograph, Chirograph, Chorograph, Chromograph, Chromolithograph, Chromophotograph, Chronophotograph, Cinematograph, Cinemograph, Comptograph, Copygraph, Cryptograph, Curvograph, Cyclograph, Dynamograph, Fluviograph, Galvanograph, Glyphograph, holograph, homograph, ideograph, kymograph, Macrograph, Magnetograph, Manograph, Marconigraph, Mechanograph, Melodiograph, Melograph, Metallograph. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-h-n-o-o-p-r-r" | |
-4 letters: corpora, harpoon. | |
-5 letters: ahchoo, anchor, archon, carhop, charro, coprah, corona, garcon, garron, gonoph, honcho, hoorah, orphan, poncho, racoon, rancho, rancor. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-h-n-o-o-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: chronographs, chronography. | |
+2 letters: chronographic. | |
+3 letters: choreographing, chronographies. | |
+4 letters: unchoreographed. | |
+5 letters: chromatographing, phonocardiograph, rechoreographing. | |
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