chronometrical

The situations of the following places, which were either fixed by us or adapted from other authorities, served as the basis of the chronometrical determination of the longitudes of the intermediate parts.

1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, volume 2

Observations were made during portions of three lunations of the transit of the moon's bright limb and of such tabulated stars as differed but little in right ascension and declination from the moon, in order to obtain additional data to those furnished by chronometrical comparisons with the meridian of Boston for computing the longitude of this meridian line.

1841, James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents

It was thus when the discovery of the different expansibilities of metals by heat, gave us the means of correcting our chronometrical measurements of astronomical periods.

1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects

The object of the expedition was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830--to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific--and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World.

1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World

[E]ach of the transcendentalists went his own way [...] driven at last to some wayward retreat of his own - a library in a mossy house in Concard, a pitched tent along the Merrimack River, or even at sea , on the whale's road , where the white foam sprays and the horological soul dreams of its chronometrical truth.

1952, The American Temper, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 203